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Creating Connections features over 70 paintings, sculptures,
drawings, and watercolours from the Rosenthal Collection of work by
self-taught artists. This richly illustrated publication explores
the mysterious connections we have with works of art and examines
the journey into the meaning of art for its creators. It looks at
the historic approaches to the creations of self-taught artists and
the problems inherent in their interpretation. It also considers
where we should go to achieve a more equitable and inclusive art
history. The Rosenthal Collection comprises a significant and
notably varied grouping. Not only does it cover a broad mix of
American names including Earl Cunningham, Henry Darger, Thornton
Dial, Bill Traylor, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Ralph Fasanella,
Martín Ramírez, and Janet Sobel, it also includes non-US artists
Carlo Zinelli, Hiroyuki Doi, Adolf Wölfli, Donald Pass, and Nek
Chand among others. Jean Dubuffet, the French painter who famously
promoted their study, is also featured. An illustrated interview by
Julie Aronson with Richard Rosenthal provides special insight into
the collector who has brought together this exceptionally diverse
array of work. Essays by Olivia Sagan and Charles Russell look at
the need for a more nuanced approach to these artists and their
work, at the history of its appreciation (including terminology
such as “Outsider Art”), and examine the work in the context of
autobiography, trauma, connection, and remembering.
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Frank Duveneck: American Master (Hardcover)
Julie Aronson; Contributions by Sarah Burns, Andre Dombrowski, Elizabeth A Simmons, Kristin L. Spangenberg, …
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Seeing the bold, confident handling with which Frank Duveneck
(1848--1919) infuses life into his subjects can be breathtaking.
This is the first major publication in more than 30 years devoted
to Duveneck, one of the most influential and widely respected
late-nineteenth century American artists. Beloved to his students,
Duveneck was lauded by many Gilded Age luminaries such as James
Abbott McNeill Whistler and Henry James. Yet a century after his
death, he is largely known only for a single, brilliant painting,
The Whistling Boy. By contextualizing his work in the artistic,
cultural and social milieus of the time, this publication offers
diverse perspectives on Duveneck's life, work, subjects and
reputation. The essays span his beginnings as a painter of dark
realism to his later impressionistic work and examine his
significance as a printmaker and draftsman. The lavishly
illustrated volume includes a chronology and selected bibliography.
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait
miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small
frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of
people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion,
hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres,
miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals
have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as
professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately
180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the
Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of
its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of
stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the
vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four
centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist
biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects
of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures,
and of the allied art of hair work. Published in association with
the Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Cincinnati Art
Museum (March 4-May 28, 2006) Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia,
South Carolina (August 18-October 22, 2006)
On May 10, 2003, the Cincinnati Art Museum will celebrate the
opening of the Cincinnati Wing: eighteen thousand square feet of
handsomely renovated gallery space devoted to the museum's renowned
collections of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and
metalwork by Cincinnati artists. The museum is the first in the
country to reinterpret its American art collections with a regional
emphasis, fostering civic pride and drawing attention to the
achievements of the city's artists.
In conjunction with the celebration, Ohio University Press is
proud to publish "The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the
Queen City," showcasing one of America's foremost art centers of
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The authors of this collection trace the thematic arrangement of
the Cincinnati Wing galleries, situating the artwork in the context
of the city's history as it progressed from a frontier river town
to an industrial powerhouse. The Cincinnati Wing provides a vivid
picture of the fertile social and cultural climate that produced
such prominent figures in the history of American art as sculptor
Hiram Powers and painters Robert S. Duncanson, Frank Duveneck, and
John H. Twachtman.
Cincinnati's contributions to the decorative arts are exemplified
by the stunning ceramics of the celebrated Rookwood Pottery
Company, the nation's leading art pottery firm, and by the city's
lesser-known yet equally significant Aesthetic Movement furniture.
One hundred fifty-one color plates highlight the beauty and
diversity of the Cincinnati Art Museum's collections and illuminate
the Queen City's great artistic legacy.
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