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Title: Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry by James M. Dennis ISBN: 0-299-15584-6 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: H.W. Janson is Dead
Comment: Finally. A well thought out and well executed book about a major movement in American art that is often dismissed as being one dimensional. Dennis' introspective look into the most revered "Regionalist" artists not only offers engaging scholarship, but a very good education in American social history as well. A must read for anyone who thinks they know what "Regionalism" is.
Rating: 5
Summary: A need to rethink the 'Regionalism' of the Regionalists
Comment: This book makes you rethink any ideas you might have about Regionalism. Whether you agree with James Dennis or not is up to you, but he certainly does bring up some very interesting ideas. The basic ideas of the Regionalism school are initially laid out for the reader, and from this beginning it is already possible to see the weak foundation of the very definition of "Regionalism," as it was defined NOT by the artists, but by their critics and the public. The sterotyping generalities inherent in this 'school' set the stage for Dennis' questioning of the similarities of the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steurat Curry, the triumvirate of Regionalism. The author proceeds to explicate the inherent differences between the 3 artists' work, as well as the eventually obvious flawed general definition of "Regionalism." Dennis breaks down his discussions into realism vs. abstraction, realistic subject matter vs. fantasies, the ideas of nationalism and fascism in the artists' work, their varying depictions of women, and finally compares the three Regionalists to three contemporary modernists, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Marsden Hartley. Dennis concludes with the assertion that the so-called "Regionalists" are in many ways more "modern" than their modernists contemporaries. The book has plenty of pictures, sadly only in black and white, and thus the book is a surprisingly quick read. Each chapter is thorough however, and must be studied to be fully understood. The reader should have some art historical background, and some knowledge of the history of the first half of the 20th century. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Regionalism, and the history of American art. Makes you think.
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Title: Thomas Hart Benton and the American South by J. Richard Gruber, Thomas Hart Benton, Morris Museum of Art ISBN: 1890021040 Publisher: Morris Museum of Art Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Grant Wood (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia ISBN: 0516422847 Publisher: Children's Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood by John Duggleby ISBN: 0811812421 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism by Erika Doss ISBN: 0226159434 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West by Patricia Junker, Henry Adams, Charles C. Eldredge, Robert L. Gambone, M. Sue Kendall, Lucy J. Mathiak, Theodore F. Wolff ISBN: 1555951392 Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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