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American art : 1908-1947, from Winslow Homer to Jackson Pollock
Title:
American art : 1908-1947, from Winslow Homer to Jackson Pollock
Author:
Chassey, Éric de.
Publication Information:
Paris : Reunion des Musees Nationaux ; New York : distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

©2001
Physical Description:
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
General Note:
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Musee des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, from October 10 - December 31, 2001 and two other museums through June 23, 2002.
Language:
English
Contents:
Why has there been no great American art (before the triumph of abstract expressionism)? / by Éric de Chassey -- The great traditions of early modern American art / by Henry Adams -- The 1913 Armory Show : stakes, strategies, and reception of a media event / by Charlotte Laubard -- The art of light : colors, sounds, and technologies of light in the art of the synchromists / by Pascal Rousseau -- The machine between cult object and merchandise : photography and the industrial aesthetic in the United States during the interwar years / by Olivier Lugon -- Harlem Renaissance : the making of a black identity / by Elvan Zabunyan -- Jean Hélion and Albert E. Gallatin : one aspect of the exchanges between Europe and the United States / by Arnauld Pierre -- Transferal and synthesis : American biomorphism of the 1930s / by Guitemie Maldonado.
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ISBN:
9780810963634
Format :
Book