A major reevaluation of an iconic 20th-century American artist 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300232845
ISBN-13
9780300232844
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240137681
Product Key Features
Book Title
Grant Wood : American Gothic and Other Fables
Author
Barbara Haskell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Individual Artists / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1.3 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
1 in
Item Weight
59.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd237.W795a4 2018
Reviews
"At a time when the U.S. was dealing with the Depression, drought and disillusionment, Wood was trying to recapture, as the catalog suggests, the 'dream-power' of his childhood--implying the tension between then and now."--Judith H. Dobrzynski, Wall Street Journal