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An essential look at American modernism as seen through the landscape painting of Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, and many others. Paintings of New England coastlines, small-town Pennsylvania, Southwestern canyons, Midwestern farms, and other evocative landscapes fill the pages of Rural Modern. More than sixty modernist works, created between the wars, present an important and often overlooked history: how American painters adapted avant-garde styles like Cubism and Fauvism to reimagine familiar landscapes and develop a distinctively American modernist vernacular. Richly illustrated and with insightful essays by noted scholars, Rural Modern traces this development through a broad range of works by both lesser-known and widely celebrated artists, including Arthur Dove, Dale Nichols, Grant Wood, N. C. Wyeth, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis. As important as the marvel of the twentieth-century city was to modernist artists such as these, many sought respite and even refuge in quieter, rural areas of the country, and soon helped to confirm modernism's enduring nature.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Rural Modern
• Subtitle: American Art Beyond the City
• Author: Amanda C. Burdan, Betsy Fahlman, Christine Podmaniczky
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780847849727
• ISBN: 0847849724
• ID: 11553959
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Weight: 1468 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 288 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. October 2016

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