This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century—using selections that are contemporary with the art—by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; the changing nature of modernism and modernity; nationalism; art as individual or community expression; the nature of public art; and the role of criticism, censorship, and government intervention. Texts by well-known writers include Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Donald Kuspit, and Kate Linker. A guide for those interested in both the standard interpretations of American art and in alternative readings.

Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century

Arts & Photography

Hills, Patricia

History & Criticism

PRENTICE/HALL

he painters' America: rural and urban life, 1810-1910 [Jan 01, 1974] Hills, Patricia ...

The painters' America: rural and urban life, 1810-1910

Praeger Publishers, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art

Traces the life of Lawrence, shows selected works from his long career, and discusses the artist's technique and major themes

Jacob Lawrence: American Painter

Wheat, Ellen Harkins

LAWRENCE, Jacob

Seattle Art Museum

Univ of Washington Pr

This is a soft cover book titled JACOB LAWRENCE: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) A Catalogue Raisonne with essay by Patricia Hills. Published by Francine Seders Gallery in association with University of Washington Press in 1994. See my photographs (8) of this catalogue on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Art-3-topshelf-middle) rareviewbooks

Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993 A Catalogue Raisonne)

Individual Artists

Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints, 1963-2000

Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricial Hills.
In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a common struggle toward unity and equality, a universal struggle seated in the depths of the human consciousness.

Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000), A Catalogue Raisonne

Nesbett, Peter T.

Francine Seders Gallery, University of Washington Press

Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.

University of California Press

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.

Gathers portraits, still lifes, and nudes by the American painter and includes her comments on her works

Alice Neel

Harry N. Abrams

Traces Sargent's life, including his childhood in Europe, looks at his sketches, watercolors, and portraits, and discusses Sargent's style

John Singer Sargent

Children's Books

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

In a way that was unusual for an artist of his time, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) took his inspiration not only from modern European painting but also from American popular culture. Davis, like other American artists in the early decades of the century, was deeply affected by his encounter with the remarkable accomplishments of the European avant-garde, which were revealed to the Americans at the landmark Armory Show of 1913 in New York. Drawn first to the color of the Post-Impressionists and then to the flattened, abstracted forms of the Cubists, Davis decided to pursue a modernist style of his own, a resolve that was strengthened by a sojourn Paris in the late 1920s. Yet in addition to these European sources, Davis was much influenced by African-American jazz. Indeed, some of the most notable features of his art were conceived as visual equivalents to the music and the language he first heard at jazz clubs in New York and New Jersey as a very young man, and which remained avid interests throughout his life. This book is the first study to take fully into account Davis's formative response to black American music - how it reshaped his understanding of what art could be and altered his personal "take" on European modernism. It also offers a detailed account of Davis's political activities in the numerous artists' associations he joined during the Depression era. Shedding new light on the artist's career and on his conception of painting, this study is essential not only for admirers of Davis's work but for anyone interested in the social currents that helped define America's visual culture during the almost fifty-year span of his career.

Stuart Davis (Library of American Art)

Biographies & Memoirs

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Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century

The painters' America: rural and urban life, 1810-1910

Jacob Lawrence: American Painter

Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993 A Catalogue Raisonne)

Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000), A Catalogue Raisonne

Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

Alice Neel

John Singer Sargent

Stuart Davis (Library of American Art)