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Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle
as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and
irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents
the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United
States.""This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output
during the 1940s, the decade of their genesis and greatest
innovation. These ""genuine citizens of the world,"" as Hickey
called them, possessed an unconventional vision that radically
sidestepped the traditional art of post-Depression Texas. Drawing
from their own fertile imaginations, the members of the Circle
responded to modern art by creating a unique aesthetic based on
contemporary surrealism and abstraction.Published by the Amon
Carter Museum to coincide with an exhibition by the same title,
""Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s"" is a
""must have"" for any library of American modernism and the art of
Texas.The catalogue also includes succinct biographies, accompanied
by photographs, of each of the eleven artists of the Fort Worth
Circle; a bibliography; exhibition checklist; and brief foreword.
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