Main entry:

Adams, Robert, 1937- author.

Title & Author:

Art can help / Robert Adams.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2017]

Description:

88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Edward Hopper -- Edward Hopper -- Richard Rothman -- Julia Margaret Cameron and Abelardo Morell -- Frank Gohlke -- Wayne Gudmundson -- Ken Abbott -- Edward Ranney -- Leo Rubinfien -- Eric Paddock -- Terri Weifenbach -- William Wylie -- Nicholas Nixon -- Garry Winogrand -- Mark Ruwedel -- Judith Joy Ross -- Cuny Janssen -- Dorothea Lange -- Mitch Epstein -- Emmet Gowin -- David T. Hanson -- John Szarkowski -- William S. Sutton -- Eugene Buechel -- Edward S. Curtis -- Anthony Hernandez -- Robert Benjamin -- Mary Peck -- Dorothea Lange.

Summary:

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society. In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) offers over two-dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that "encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence." Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains essays-more than half of which have never before been published-that contemplate one work or a small group of works by an individual artist. Many of the objects discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays beckon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams's voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.

ISBN:

9780300229240 (hardcover)
0300229240 (hardcover)

Subject:

Art Philosophy.
Art Philosophie.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays.
Essais.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301219
Call No.: BIB 247388
Status: Available