Main entry:

Neff, Emily Ballew, 1963-

Title & Author:

The modern West : American landscapes, 1890-1950 / Emily Ballew Neff ; with an essay by Barry Lopez.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm.

Series:

Texas authors

Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-307) and index.
Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword / Peter C Marzio -- Preface / Emily Ballew Neff -- Acknowledgments -- Out west / Barry Lopez -- On Modern Ground / Emily Ballew Neff -- Prologue: Landmarking the west -- End of the frontier: making the west artistic -- Many West: Modern Regions -- California -- Southwest -- Dust bowl era-plains and other places -- Epilogue: Abstract west -- Notes -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Copyright and photography credits.
Checklist of artists: Thomas Moran -- William Henry Jackson -- Eadweard Muybridge -- Timothy O'Sullivan -- Carleton E. Watkins -- John K. Hillers -- KOWEONARRE (Little Chief) -- Bear's Heart -- John Henry Twachtman -- Frederic Remington -- Henry F. Farny -- N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth -- Arthur Wesley Dow -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Augustus Vincent Tack -- Edward S. Curtis -- Erwin E. Smith -- Laura Gilpin -- Edward Steichen -- Alvin Langdon Coburn -- Louise Deshong Woodbridge -- Arthur B. Davies -- Arthur F. Mathews -- Gottardo Piazzoni -- Frank Cuprien -- Selden Connor Gile -- Clayton S. Price -- Stanton Macdonald-Wright -- William E. Dassonville -- Anne W. Brigman -- William E. Dassonville -- Asahachi Kono -- Ansel Adams -- Ernest L. Blumenschein -- Victor Higgins -- Maynard Dixon -- Raymond Jonson -- Stuart Davis -- Marsden Hartley -- John Marin -- Adam Clark Vroman -- Paul Strand -- Edward Weston -- Eliot Porter -- Alfonso (Awa Tsireh) Roybal -- Julian Martinez -- Riley (Quoyavema) Sunrise -- Pylen Nanaweaka -- Grant Wood -- Thomas Hart Benton -- Alexandre Hogue -- Paul Sample -- Dorothea Lange -- Marion Post Wolcott -- Marjorie Content -- Arthur Rothstein -- Russell Lee -- Jackson Pollock -- Vance Kirkland -- Morris Graves -- Clyfford Still -- Edward Corbett -- Mark Tobey -- Jeff King -- Maud Oakes -- Frederick Sommer.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0300114486 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780300114485 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0890901457 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780890901458 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300114485
9780890901458

Subject:

Art, American 19th century Exhibitions.
Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) United States Exhibitions.
Art américain 19e siècle Expositions.
Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) États-Unis Expositions.
États-Unis (Ouest) dans l'art Expositions.
Art, American
Modernism (Art)
West (U.S.) In art Exhibitions.
United States
West United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Texas authors.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251414
Call No.: N8214.5.U6 N44 2006
Status: Available