Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

"Framing the Audience" explores the cultural politics of the Great Depression and World War II through the prism of art appreciation. Isadora Helfgott interrogates the ideological and political motivations for breaking down barriers between fine art and popular culture. She charts the impact that changes in art appreciation had on the broader political, social, cultural, and artistic landscape.

"Framing the Audience" argues that efforts to expand the social basis of art became intertwined with and helped shape broader debates about national identity and the future of American political...

"Framing the Audience" explores the cultural politics of the Great Depression and World War II through the prism of art appreciation. Isadora Helfgott interrogates the ideological and political motivations for breaking down barriers between fine art and popular culture. She charts the impact that changes in art appreciation had on the broader political, social, cultural, and artistic landscape.

"Framing the Audience" argues that efforts to expand the social basis of art became intertwined with and helped shape broader debates about national identity and the future of American political...

As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume argues that the way artists understood and depicted the concepts of degeneration and regeneration is essential to understanding the broader societal conversation and is inseparable from definitions of Spanish modernism.

Oscar E. Vazquez examines how painting, sculpture, drawing, and popular illustrated materials approached "endings" and "beginnings" during the Bourbon monarchy's restoration. Throughout this period, people inside...

"Truth to Nature," a rallying cry for those artists and critics aiming to reform art-making practices in Great Britain over the course of the nineteenth century, bound together artists as diverse as Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais, photographer P. H. Emerson, and bohemian modernist Augustus John. In order to understand "truth," these artists turned to the rising disciplines of science, which offered new insights into physical phenomena, vision, and perception.

Drawing on sources ranging from artists' letters to scientific treatises, Nature's Truth illuminates the dynamic...

To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it, Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest itself.

"Barnstorming the Prairies "offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from...