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Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration coincides with the
Missouri state bicentennial. The catalogue brings together the
region's paintings, sculptures, works on paper, furniture,
ceramics, metals, textiles, and more to reveal and celebrate their
shared artistic history. Beginning with the ancient Mississippian
culture followed by the Osage, French, African American, German,
British, and artists today, these communities developed rich
artistic traditions that have vibrant legacies. Art Along the
Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration marks the 200th anniversary of
Missouri's statehood. This exhibition catalogue presents
extraordinary objects produced or collected within a 150-mile
region around St. Louis. As a celebration of the cultural and
artistic traditions of this region, the catalogue looks within- and
beyond- the years of statehood to reveal how the region's
geography, raw materials, and pressing social issues shaped over
1,000 years of rich artistic production. Though these objects have
rarely been considered in connection with one another, the
catalogue brings them into dialogue to establish and celebrate
their shared artistic history and serves as the first significant
publication to introduce this primary artistic material to a global
audience.
Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art
adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum
collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections
features selected works-more than 125-from the museum's collection,
accompanied by concise essays by scholars of art who reflect on and
respond to the distinctive aspects of each work. To this customary
approach, the editors have added what they term intersections
essays: an examination of a well-known work of art from the
differing perspectives of two authors-most of whom are not art
historians. For instance, acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates
provides her perspective on George Bellows and is joined by Laurie
Bellows Booth, an objects conservator and the painter's
granddaughter. The book includes ten of these compelling essays,
including contributions by such authors as Adam Gopnik and Alan
Trachtenberg.
Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s
America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying
subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate
of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of
the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an
era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract
Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored,
humorous, and distinctly feminine paintings combine elements of
social realism and surrealism to seductive and disquieting effect.
This publication is a timely reevaluation of an artist who pushed
the boundaries of figurative painting with playfulness and biting
wit. Distributed for the Columbus Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Columbus Museum of Art (02/10/17-05/21/17) Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (06/30/17-09/03/17) Smith
College Museum of Art, Northamton, MA (09/21/17-01/07/18)
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