Grant Wood : American Gothic and other fables

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The work Grant Wood : American Gothic and other fables represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Grant Wood : American Gothic and other fables

Title remainder

American Gothic and other fables

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Haskell ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson [and four others]

Creator

• Haskell, Barbara

Contributor

• Adamson, Glenn
• Whitney Museum of American Art

Author

• Haskell, Barbara

Host institution

• Whitney Museum of American Art

Issuing body

• Whitney Museum of American Art

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Adamson, Glenn

Subject

• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Malerei
• Painters
• Painters -- History -- United States -- Exhibitions
• Painters -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions
• Peintres -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Expositions
• United States
• Wood, Grant
• Wood, Grant, 1891-1942
• Wood, Grant, 1891-1942
• Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 -- Exhibitions
• ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
• exhibition catalogs
• Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 -- Expositions
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre

• Expositions
• History
• exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition

Language

eng

Summary

• 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
• "This comprehensive study of Grant Wood (1891-1942) is packed with extensive new scholarship and provides fresh insight into the career of one of the key figures of 20th-century American art. Working primarily in the traditional genres of portraiture and landscape, Wood infused his paintings with a palpable tension that is grounded in the profound epistemological and social upheavals of his time. Exploring Wood's oeuvre from a variety of perspectives, this book presents the artist's work in all of its subtle complexity and eschews the idea that Wood can be categorized simply as a Regionalist painter. Generously illustrated, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables includes several works published here for the first time, as well as new photography of other paintings. The essays in the volume contextualize Wood's work within a much larger art-historical framework than has previously been considered; renowned scholars address topics such as the artist's literary influences, the role of gender identity in his paintings, and the parallels between Wood's work and the contemporaneous European movements of Surrealism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Precisionism, Art Deco design, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Through a careful reconsideration of Wood's career, creative process, technique, iconography, and critical reception, this book reveals for the first time the deep significance and cosmopolitan breadth of Wood's artistic vision."--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

PUL

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs