Renegade regionalists : the modern independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry /
James M. Dennis.
- xvi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- "Direct Realism" Versus Modern Abstractions -- "Direct Realism" Versus Mimetic Fantasies -- Nationalism! -- Fascism? -- Grant Wood's Matriarchate -- Tom Benton's "Girls" as Reverberations of Modernization -- John Curry's Reactive Women: From Myth to Protest -- Grant Wood's Affair with Abstract Art -- Charles Demuth's Affair with Lancaster, Pa. -- Charles Sheeler's Love of a New Industrial Region -- Marsden Hartley's Return as a Nativist -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 --Criticism and interpretation. Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 --Criticism and interpretation. Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946 --Criticism and interpretation.
Regionalism in art--United States Modernism (Art)--United States Art, American Art, American--20th century