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Ashcan School and the Eight : "Creating a National Art" by Brandon Ruud (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMarquand Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101938885147

ISBN-139781938885143

eBay Product ID (ePID)12057276933

Product Key Features

Book TitleAshcan School and the Eight : &Quot;Creating a National Art&Quot;

Number of Pages162 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, General, American / General

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorBrandon Ruud

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight46.2 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width9.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-025162

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal759.13

Table Of ContentForeword Acknowledgments "To be Felt, Not Seen" The Landscapes of Robert Henri The "American Ward"? Italian Immigration and the Ashcan School's Greenwich Village The Unseen City The Ashcan School's New York The Dynamic Artist Physiological and Perceptual Theory in the Work of Arthur Bowen Davies "For Every Citizen" Building an Ashcan School Collection in Milwaukee Illustrated Checklist

SynopsisThe Ashcan School and The Eight are now recognized as America's first modern art movement: rejecting their academic training and the practices of the National Academy of Design, they forged a new art that represented America's shifting values. By focusing on urban streets scenes, the lives of immigrants, popular entertainments, and the working poor, this loosely affiliated group of artists became synonymous with ordinary, everyday subjects -- in the words of one critic, "pictures of ashcans." Yet this is only part of their story: they also experimented with complex color theory and embraced scientific studies about movement and perception, while also creating scenes of bourgeois leisure and society portraits in attempts to reconcile their high-art practices with their populist reputations. This catalog features nearly 130 works across media, including paintings, drawings, pastels, and prints -- rarely seen objects and popular favorites. Collectively these works emphasize the Ashcan School's and The Eight's valuable contributions to the formation of American modernism at the beginning of the 20th century.

LC Classification NumberN6512.5.E4A84 2022