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"This lavishly illustrated book, surprisingly the first on the subject, explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility, and liveliness of the American realist tradition. Sixteen varied sections discuss and display the finest and most influential work of different groups, schools, and periodsbeginning before the Revolutionary War and including American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, Precisionism, American Scene painting, Urban Realism, Photorealism, and today's Postmodern Realism - and provide convincing proof that the American realist legacy occupies an unparalleled position in world art." "In this important critical synthesis, Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of the pioneering masters of American realism, such as Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Charles Sheeler, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth. He adds a major new dimension in his examination of the work of contemporary realist painters: those recently acknowledged as major figures, among them Isabel Bishop, Alice Neel, and Fairfield Porter, and those such as Wayne Thiebaud and Leon Golub, whose reputations and contribution only currently are coming to full appreciation. He includes as well younger artists like Eric Fischl and Jeff Koons, who have achieved star status within this innovative tradition. The book thus carries the story of American realism right up to the present, showing how it continues to flourish today as strongly as it has in the past. A magnificent volume, with more than one hundred color plates, American Realism both celebrates and reveals the power of a great American legacy."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Among the artists considered are Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Jeff Koons, Alice Neel, Philip Pearlstein, Eric Fischl, Richard Estes, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Cadmus, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, George Bellows, Duane Hanson, and Thomas Anshutz to name just a few.
In the extensive and knowledgeable yet very accessible text as one would expect from Edward Lucie-Smith follows the development and influences of American Realism, and includes a background on each artist discussed. The book is well illustrated throughout with 215 pictures, 115 in full colour, they vary in size from the quite small to a number full-page in size. The illustrations run with the text so that they appear alongside any mention of them in the text.
This is a beautifully produced book on quality paper, the colour images are first class,, it is a shame that they are in the minority, albeit just, although it must be admitted that the black and white images are also of exceptionally high quality. ( )