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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"American Art History"”.
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… is the first full-career study of the American painter Myron Stout (1908- 1987). Stout is best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… is the first full-career study of the American painter Myron Stout (1908-1987). Stout is best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement which …
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Embattled
… "Embattled" contain images of Second World War American soldiers from the 1998 motion picture, Saving Private Ryan , as well as from 1960s era DC and Marvel brand comics such as Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, GI Combat, and Sgt. Rock. Also included are photocopies or real pieces of …
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Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
… in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including feminist art history and representations of the female nude, the metaphysics of modernism and abstract art, and late twentieth century practices of landscape painting, and in a dialectic with artists, not restricted …
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Iyarara: Loss and Found
… the repurposed materials used by many artists in Africa historically and contemporarily and their relationship both to these social and environmental issues and to European and North American art history.
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… flock', has become the defining image for the American women sculptors who worked in Rome in the midnineteenth century at the height of neoclassicism, subsuming their works and histories under the connotations of its words. Instead of simply permitting us to name these sculptors, `white, …
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The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power
<p>Two competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through …
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
… of the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano (BSJ, 1970-2001) of Puerto Rico, and its reincarnation as the Poly/Graphic Triennial (2004 - Present). As the Caribbean’s first art biennial, the creation of the BSJ was not only innovative, but also a strategic, bold project on the part …
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
… silence as a political and aesthetic strategy in American art from 1947 to 2008. It seeks to develop a historical account of three different artists and their investments in silence, with particularized, historically grounded definitions of silence developed in each chapter. It asserts that …
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Circulation, exchange and race in Ralph Clarkson's 'Nouvart Dzeron, a daughter of Armenia'
… created his best known work, the painting 'Nouvart Dzeron,' in 1912. The painting depicts a full-length portrait of a young woman dressed in traditional Armenian dress. Between 1912 and the 1920s, the title of the painting would change from 'Nouvart Dzeron' to 'A Daughter of Armenia' to …
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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
<p>Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Mexican artists employed art interventions in commercial galleries, cultural institutions, and city streets to facilitate a renegotiation of the role of art (and the artist) in society. The art intervention, a mode of conceptualism, served to circumvent traditional …
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Competing visions: Women writers and male illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration
… the illustrations in texts by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Edith Wharton, Pauline Hopkins, and Zitkala-Sa exposes how writers, illustrators, and readers made sense of some of the most important ideological debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p>
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Choran community: The aesthetics of encounter in literary and photographic modernism
… photographs, and phototexts by British and American artists published between the world wars in order to argue that these works re-envision community through a narrative aesthetic, which I term the choran moment, that communicates the possibility of genuinely empathetic understanding between …