The modern West : American landscapes, 1890-1950
(Book - Regular Print)

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New Haven : Yale University Press ;, [2006].
Physical Desc
xix, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm
Status
Sedona Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
758.178 NEFF
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Yavapai College Verde - STORAGE - Storage
N8214.5.U6N44 2006
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press ;, [2006].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English

Notes

General Note
Catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 29, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 4-June 3, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-307) and index.
Description
From the Publisher: Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century. Paintings, watercolors, and photographs by renowned artists such as Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothea Lange, and Jackson Pollock are considered alongside American Indian ledger drawings, tempuras, and Dineh sandpaintings. Taken together, these works document the quest to create a specifically American art in the decades prior to World War II. The Modern West begins with a captivating meditation on the relationship between human culture and the physical landscape by Barry Lopez, who traveled the West in the artists' footsteps. Emily Ballew Neff then describes the evolving importance of the West for American artists working out a radically new aesthetic response to space and place, from artist-explorers on the turn-of-the-century frontier, to visionaries of a Californian Arcadia, to desert luminaries who found in its stark topography a natural equivalent to abstraction. Beautifully illustrated and handsomely designed, this book is essential to anyone interested in the West and the history of modernism in American art.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Neff, E. B. (2006). The modern West: American landscapes, 1890-1950 . Yale University Press ;.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Neff, Emily Ballew, 1963-. 2006. The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950. Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Neff, Emily Ballew, 1963-. The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 Yale University Press, 2006.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Neff, Emily Ballew. The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 Yale University Press ;, 2006.

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