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Author
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"George de Forest Brush (1854-1941) created an important series of paintings of American Indians that was much celebrated in his time but has been seen rarely since. This book features detailed discussions of individual paintings and interpretive essays exploring the historical and cultural context in which the paintings were produced."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts...
Author
Publisher
Chameleon Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Once the "Girl with a watering can" steps out of the painting, which is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hercuriosity leads her to visit other paintings in the museum, where her mischievous behavior causes more trouble than ever expected.
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