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Grant Wood S Iowa
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Author : Wende Elliott
language : en
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Release Date : 2013-05-06
Grant Wood S Iowa written by Wende Elliott and has been published by The Countryman Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-06 with Travel categories.
Be transported into the private and cherished world of this celebrated American icon with tour of Grant Wood's home state.. Grant Wood, Iowa native, iconic Regionalist American artist, certainly left his mark on his home state. Wood’s American Gothic is one of America’s most recognizable paintings, his boyhood home is a registered landmark, and collections of his work grace museums far and near. Now you can tour his state with five itineraries that provide a detailed exploration of the historical context for his work. Grant Wood’s Iowa explores his role in the art world with self-guided museum tours, detailed discussions of specific works, information on the finest lodging and dining in the state, and, finally, “green” travel options, including rural bed and breakfasts, restaurants offering local organic menus, nightlife with local artists, and nature hikes to experience the landscape that inspired Wood. You’ll be transported into the private and cherished world of this celebrated American icon.
Artist In Iowa
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Author : Darrell Garwood
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1971
Artist In Iowa written by Darrell Garwood and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Art categories.
October 2006
Grant Wood S Main Street
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Author : Lea Rosson DeLong
language : en
Publisher: Brunnier Art Museum University Art Museums Iowa State Univer
Release Date : 2004
Grant Wood S Main Street written by Lea Rosson DeLong and has been published by Brunnier Art Museum University Art Museums Iowa State Univer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art and literature categories.
Grant Wood
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Author : Grant Wood
language : en
Publisher: Pomegranate
Release Date : 1995
Grant Wood written by Grant Wood and has been published by Pomegranate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Painters categories.
Richly illustrated, the book examines Wood's modernist tendencies, ranging from abstract design principles to the lasting influence of paintings by Georges Seurat and German Neue Schlichkeit artists. Also provides the most detailed account available of the artists working methods.
Grant Wood S Secrets
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Author : Sue Taylor
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-02-03
Grant Wood S Secrets written by Sue Taylor and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-03 with Art categories.
Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood’s iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood’s Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood’s abortive autobiography "Return from Bohemia" for the first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist’s own recollections into interpretations of his art. As Wood dressed in overalls and boasted about his beloved Midwest, he consciously engaged in regionalist strategies, performing a farmer masquerade of sorts. In doing so, he also posed as conventionally masculine, hiding his homosexuality from his rural community. Thus, he came to experience himself as a double man. This book conveys the very real threats under which Wood lived and pays tribute to his resourceful responses, which were often duplicitous and have baffled art historians who typically take them at face value.
My Brother Grant Wood
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Author : Nan Wood Graham
language : en
Publisher: State Historical Society Iowa
Release Date : 1993
My Brother Grant Wood written by Nan Wood Graham and has been published by State Historical Society Iowa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Grant Wood
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Author : R. Tripp Evans
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2010-10-05
Grant Wood written by R. Tripp Evans and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Art categories.
He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”
Grant Wood S Studio
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Author : Jane Milosch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Grant Wood S Studio written by Jane Milosch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Examines "American Gothic" painter Grant Wood's period in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, describing his studio/residence and discussing his body of work, including not only his paintings, drawings, and prints but his work in wood, metal, and interior design.
Plunder
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Author : Cynthia Saltzman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Plunder written by Cynthia Saltzman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
John Steuart Curry And Grant Wood
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Author : John Steuart Curry
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1981
John Steuart Curry And Grant Wood written by John Steuart Curry and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Art categories.