Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honore Sharrer

Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored, humorous, and distinctly feminine paintings combine elements of social realism and surrealism to seductive and disquieting effect. This publication is a timely reevaluation of an artist who pushed the boundaries of figurative painting with playfulness and biting wit.Distributed for the Columbus Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:Columbus Museum of Art(02/10/17-05/21/17)Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia(06/30/17-09/03/17)Smith College Museum of Art, Northamton, MA(09/21/17-01/07/18)

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• Authors: Sarah Burns, Sarah Cozzolino Burns, Burns Sarah, Robert Cozzolino, Cozzolino Robert, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, Michael Lobel, Lobel Michael, M Melissa Wolfe, M. Melissa Wolfe, Wolfe M. Melissa, Adam Zagorin, Adam Burns Zagorin, Adam Desmond Zagorin, Adam Desmond Burns Zagorin, Zagorin Adam Desmond
• Assisted by: M Melissa Wolfe (Editor), M. Melissa Wolfe (Editor), Wolfe M. Melissa (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2017
• EAN: 9780300223132
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22313-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 237 mm x 286 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Columbus Museum of Art; Royal Armouries Research Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, 20th Century, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Abstract Expressionism, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & Design Styles: Abstract Expressionism