After Many Springs - Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest

Informationen zum Autor Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator and scholar. Jeff Fleming is director of the Des Moines Art Center. Klappentext After Many Springs is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book--taking the name of this work by Benton--examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith. It is commonly believed that Regionalist artists Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood reacted to the economic and social devastation of their era by harking back in tranquil bucolic paintings to a departed utopia. However, this volume compares their work to that of photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn and filmmakers such as Josef von Sternberg--all of whom documented the desolation of the Depression--and finds surprising commonalities. The book also notes intriguing connections between Regionalist artists and Modernists Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston, countering prevailing assumptions that Regionalism was an anathema to these New York School painters and showing their shared fascination with the Midwest. Distributed for the Des Moines Art Center Exhibition Schedule: Des Moines Art Center (January 30 - May 17, 2009) Zusammenfassung Examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings! photography! and film during the Great Depression! a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith.

Product details

• Authors: Debra Bricker Balken, Balken Debra Bricker
• Assisted by: Fleming Jeff (Introduction)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2009
• EAN: 9780300135862
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13586-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Des Moines Art Center (Yale); Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / Subjects & Themes / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / American / General, History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, US Midwest, North Central & Mid-West States, Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art, Small-scale, secular and domestic scenes in art