Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
Crosscurrents makes a significant contribution to the study of modernism. Featuring a wide array of modern and contemporary artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, and Wayne Thiebaud, it provides a vital insight into the way the rise of modernism in the mid-twentieth century shaped the art world forever.

In her essay Breaking the Rules Virginia M. Mecklenburg, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, documents the rise of modernism in America, as the boundaries between European and American art and culture continued to break down and merge throughout the twentieth century.

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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
Crosscurrents makes a significant contribution to the study of modernism. Featuring a wide array of modern and contemporary artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, and Wayne Thiebaud, it provides a vital insight into the way the rise of modernism in the mid-twentieth century shaped the art world forever.

In her essay Breaking the Rules Virginia M. Mecklenburg, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, documents the rise of modernism in America, as the boundaries between European and American art and culture continued to break down and merge throughout the twentieth century.

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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection

Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection

by Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection

Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection

by Virginia M. Mecklenburg

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Crosscurrents makes a significant contribution to the study of modernism. Featuring a wide array of modern and contemporary artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, and Wayne Thiebaud, it provides a vital insight into the way the rise of modernism in the mid-twentieth century shaped the art world forever.

In her essay Breaking the Rules Virginia M. Mecklenburg, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, documents the rise of modernism in America, as the boundaries between European and American art and culture continued to break down and merge throughout the twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781907804809
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Publication date: 11/10/2015
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Virginia Mecklenburg the chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Table of Contents

Foreword by Elizabeth Broun
Acknowledgments
Breaking the Rules by Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Intimations of Intimacy
Nature and Culture
Myth and Metaphor
Issues and Affirmations
A Material World
Double Takes

Index
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