| Grandma Moses: American Modern Contributor(s): Denenberg, Thomas (Contribution by), Franklin, Jamie (Contribution by), Korzenik, Diana (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0847849236 ISBN-13: 9780847849239 Publisher: Rizzoli Electa OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 10.8" W x 10.7" (2.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art. One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day folk painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars examine Moses's name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in American pop culture; address the myth of the self-taught artist; and contextualize her work alongside such contemporaries as Horace Pippin, Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Hirshfield. |