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Contemporary Art

True Grit American Prints from 1900 to 1950

Schrader Stephanie, Glisson James, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781606066270, Getty Publications, October 2019
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressiv...

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History of Art

For America Paintings from the National Academy of Design

McCarthy Jeremiah William, Thompson Diana, Rather Susan, Spear Elizabeth, Haltman Kenneth, Reason Akela, Greenhill Jennifer, Shahi Kimia, Walz Jonathan F., Nemerov Alexander, Wilson Alona C., Hills Patricia, Earnest Jarrett

ISBN: PB: 9780300244281, Yale University Press, April 2019
304 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th-century founding to the present. The nation's oldest artist ho...

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History of Art

Experience

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.

In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...

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Photography

Danny Lyon Message to the Future

Cox Julian, Sussman Elisabeth, Nemerov Alexander, Sachs Danica Willard, Halter Ed, Rinzler Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300218831, Yale University Press, June 2016
340 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects o...

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History of Art

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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History of Art

Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Trumble Angus, Wolk Rager Andrea, Albinson A. Cassandra, Barringer Tim, Fletcher Pamela M., Hart Imogen, Mansfield Elizabeth C., Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172393, Yale University Press, May 2011
156 pp., 28.4x26.7 cm, 35 black&white illus., 55 colour illus.

An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920...

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