Grant Wood S Secrets


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Grant Wood S Secrets


Grant Wood S Secrets
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Author : Sue Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-28

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Grant Wood S Secrets


Grant Wood S Secrets
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Author : Sue Taylor
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2020-02-03

Grant Wood S Secrets written by Sue Taylor and has been published by University of Delaware 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. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.



Grant Wood S Secrets


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.



Grant Wood


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 The Regionalist Vision


Grant Wood The Regionalist Vision
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Author : Wanda M. Corn
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1983

Grant Wood The Regionalist Vision written by Wanda M. Corn and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Painters categories.


Catalogue of a traveling exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and other galleries.



Calculus Mysteries And Thrillers


Calculus Mysteries And Thrillers
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Author : R. Grant Woods
language : en
Publisher: MAA
Release Date : 1998

Calculus Mysteries And Thrillers written by R. Grant Woods and has been published by MAA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Mathematics categories.


The author presents eleven mathematic problems and their solutions in story form for the reader. The calculus concepts on which the problems are based include; tangent and normal lines, optimization by use of criticla points, inverse trig functions, volumes of solids, surface area integrals, and modeling economic concepts using definite integrals". -- Back cover.



Grant Wood S Studio


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.



These Silent Woods


These Silent Woods
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Author : Kimi Cunningham Grant
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2021-11-16

These Silent Woods written by Kimi Cunningham Grant and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Fiction categories.


A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past. Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all.



Grant Wood


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


Grant Wood
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Author : Barbara Haskell
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01

Grant Wood written by Barbara Haskell and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Art categories.


The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling images of estrangement and apprehension that pictorially manifest the anxiety of modern life.