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Book Synopsis Artists in Wood by : Frederick Fried
Download or read book Artists in Wood written by Frederick Fried and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-seven biographies of those folk artists who were responsible for cigar-store Indians, show figures, and circus wagons.
Book Synopsis Artists in Wood by : Frederick Fried
Download or read book Artists in Wood written by Frederick Fried and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-seven biographies of those folk artists who were responsible for cigar-store Indians, show figures, and circus wagons.
Book Synopsis New Masters of Woodturning by : Kevin Wallace
Download or read book New Masters of Woodturning written by Kevin Wallace and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEET THIRTY-ONE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF A CLASSIC CRAFT.They are from different parts of the world but share a common passion: turning wood into sculptural forms of self-expression. You'll see each artist at work--in their studios, homes, and at the lathe--and discover why their stunning work is considered to be preeminent in the respective fields of woodtruning and modern art. A gallery of beautiful photographs is included. New Masters of Woodturning looks beyond the surface of the wood and into the vision and mind of the artist, providing insights that offer a captivating and important perspective of turn-of-the-century art and craft.
Download or read book Jonas Wood written by Mark Grotjahn and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grant Wood written by Mike Venezia and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of Grant Wood
Download or read book Grant Wood written by R. Tripp Evans and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Book Synopsis The Fine Art of Wood by : Bonita Fike
Download or read book The Fine Art of Wood written by Bonita Fike and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring innovative pieces with striking shapes, unusual finishes, and sensuous woods from every corner of the world, the book offers a rare opportunity to explore a pivotal breakthrough in the field: artists working in wood now claim the same freedom of expression long enjoyed by ceramists and glass artists.".
Book Synopsis Fine Wood Artists Volume Five by : Nakisha VanderHoeven
Download or read book Fine Wood Artists Volume Five written by Nakisha VanderHoeven and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume showcasing the artistry of members of FineWoodArtists.com. Wood art includes turnings, carvings, sculpture, fine studio furniture, jewelry and more. All work is presented in full color with information on each artist.
Download or read book Grant Wood written by Barbara Haskell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A History of the Met by : Jonas Wood
Download or read book A History of the Met written by Jonas Wood and published by Paper Chase Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2007, Los Angeles artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) has been sketching Greek, Oceanic and African vessels at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His relationship with the Met began as a child accompanying his sisters and parents, and when he began to make regular visits to New York from L.A. in 2007, he resumed his relationship with the museum, acquiring the habit of sketching the Met's ceramic holdings using a ballpoint pen on hotel stationary. Following each of these visits, Wood then created large-scale versions of the drawings in his studio back in L.A., reworking them in charcoal or pencil on paper. A History of the Metis the first installment in the artist's multi-volume homage to the Met, a project that accords with his well-known visual diary style and his fondness for portraying objects and places related to friends and family.
Author :J. Christopher White Publisher :Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated ISBN 13 :9781565231221 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Parables written by J. Christopher White and published by Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness gnarled trees and roots transformed into stunningly beautiful sculptures. Features incredible color photography, more than 50 inspiring works of art, and narratives detailing the inspiration behind the carving.
Book Synopsis The Artists' Prison by : Alexandra Grant
Download or read book The Artists' Prison written by Alexandra Grant and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Artists' Prison looks askance at the workings of personality and privilege, sexuality, authority, and artifice in the art world. Imagined through the heavily redacted testimony of the prison's warden, written by Alexandra Grant, and powerfully allusive images by Eve Wood, the prison is a brutal, Kafkaesque landscape where creativity can be a criminal offence and sentences range from the allegorical to the downright absurd. In The Artists' Prison, the act of creating becomes a strangely erotic condemnation, as well as a means of punishment and transformation. It is in these very transformations--sometimes dubious, sometimes oddly sentimental--that the book's critical edge is sharpest. In structural terms, The Artists' Prison represents a unique visual and literary intersection, in which Wood's drawings open spaces of potential meaning in Grant's text, and the text, in turn, acts as a framework in which the images can resonate and intensify in significance.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Art with Wood by : Dona Z. Meilach
Download or read book Contemporary Art with Wood written by Dona Z. Meilach and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1968 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this unique survey of wood in art today, the author traces the development of twentieth-century wood carving from Picasso's early 1907 experiments with cubism. She describes the properties of softwoods and hardwoods; how to select and buy wood, how to dry and seal wood; the use of hand and power tools; painting, finishing, laminating, joining, and pegging. There are examples and demonstrations by today's most prominent sculptors and craftsmen working with wood: Chaim Gross, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Hostetler, Roel D' Haese, Wharton Esherick, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Gabriel Kohn, Marisol, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, William A. Keyser, Jr., Hugh Townley, Michael Rothenstein, Robert Stocksdale, Sidney Simon." -- Book cover.
Book Synopsis A History of Art History by : Christopher S. Wood
Download or read book A History of Art History written by Christopher S. Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however--Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich--struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history."--from book jacket
Book Synopsis Nature Transformed by : Sean M. Ulmer
Download or read book Nature Transformed written by Sean M. Ulmer and published by Hudson Hills Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents a selection of wood-based works from the collection of Robert Bohlen, one of the finest and most thorough collectors of wood art. The artistic progress of the medium is analyzed by a wide array of essays.
Download or read book Against the Grain written by Lowery Sims and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on some of the most interesting conceptual technical trends in wood working today, Against the Grain includes approximately 65 vessels, sculptures, furniture, and installations, created since 2000, which provocatively defy categories and celebrate the visual dynamics of wood. The book demonstrates how contemporary creators have engaged the medium of wood in strategies that might be described as “postmodern,” employing mimicry, assemblage, virtuosity, and whimsy (with a serious purpose). Environmental issues also are prominently addressed. Artists represented include Derek Bencomo, Gary Carsley, Hunt Clark, Piet Hein Eek, David Ellsworth, Sebastian Errazuriz, Bud Latven, Mark Lindquist, Thomas Loeser, Sarah Oppenheimer, William Pope.L, Martin Puryear, Marc Andre Robinson, Laurel Roth, Betye Saar, Courtney Smith, Elisa Strozyk, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Download or read book Conceptual Art written by Paul Wood and published by Tate. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual Art has set out to undermine two concepts associated with art - the production of objects to look at, and the act of contemplative looking itself. This introduction explores the reasons why the new avant-garde chose to produce such work.