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This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the
history of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes
as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman's Building at the 1893
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern
woman's progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely
at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the
structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary
MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to
visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of
modern woman's opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative
sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene
G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public
images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the
complex discourse of fin de siecle woman's politics. "The Woman's
Building" offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to
create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put
women rather than men at its center.
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Rethinking Andrew Wyeth (Hardcover)
David Cateforis; Contributions by Wanda Corn, Alexander Nemerov, Joyce Hill Stoner, Randall C. Griffin, …
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Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized
artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was
reviled by the art world's critical elite. Rethinking Andrew Wyeth
reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to
reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his work. In
addition to surveying the American critical reception of Wyeth's
art over the seven decades of his career, David Cateforis brings
together a collection of essays featuring new critical and
scholarly responses to the artist. Donald Kuspit's compelling
psycho-philosophical interpretation of Wyeth exemplifies the
possibility of new approaches to understanding his work that move
beyond the Wyeth "curse," as do those of the other contributors to
this volume - from the close analysis of Wyeth's technical means
offered by Joyce Hill Stoner, to the adventuresome interpretive
readings of individual Wyeth paintings advanced by Alexander
Nemerov and Randall C. Griffin, the considerations of Wyeth's
critical reception in historical context offered by Wanda M. Corn
and Katie Robinson Edwards, and the connections of Wyeth to other
canonical artists such as Francine Weiss' comparison of him to
Robert Frost and Patricia Junker's linkage of Wyeth and Marcel
Duchamp. Rethinking Andrew Wyeth includes an appendix with data
from visitor surveys conducted at the Wyeth retrospectives in San
Francisco in 1973 and Philadelphia in 2006. Illustrated throughout
with both iconic and lesser-known examples of Wyeth's work, this
book will appeal to academic, museum, and popular audiences seeking
a deeper understanding and appreciation of Andrew Wyeth's art
through its critical reception and interpretation. Edited by David
Cateforis, with essays by David Cateforis, Wanda M. Corn, Katie
Robinson Edwards, Randall C. Griffin, Patricia Junker, Donald
Kuspit, Alexander Nemerov, Joyce Hill Stoner, and Francine Weiss.
This volume's release coincides with an exhibition at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 2014, Andrew Wyeth: Looking
Out, Looking In.
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