Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

ISBN 10: 1469674084 / ISBN 13: 9781469674087

Verlag: University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1469674084I4N01

Inhaltsangabe:

Drawn from a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century. Featuring twelve essays, this lavishly illustrated volume includes all the works from the exhibition and assesses a broader body of contextual pieces to offer a fascinating, multipronged look at modernism's thriving presence in the South—until now, something largely overlooked in histories of American art. Contributors take a broad view of the region, considering artists working in the states below the Mason-Dixon Line and those bordering the Mississippi River. It examines the central roles played by women and artists of color, providing a fuller, richer, and more accurate overview of the artistic activity in the region than has been previously presented. The book is structured around key themes, including the embrace of "high" modernism, the importance of emerging university programs and artist colonies, the depiction of rural and urban modern life, and the role of artists from the South who left and artists from outside the region who came to the South seeking new subjects.

Contributors are Daniel Belasco, Katelyn D. Crawford, William Underwood Eiland, William R. Ferris, Shawnya Harris, Todd Herman, Karen Towers Klacsmann, Leo G. Mazow, Christopher C. Oliver, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Martha R. Severens, Jonathan Stuhlman, Rebecca VanDiver, and Jonathan Frederick Walz.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jonathan Stuhlman is senior curator of American art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Martha R. Severens was curator at the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, from 1992 to 2010.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art ...
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket