購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

Grant Wood

的圖書
Grant Wood Grant Wood

作者:R. Tripp Evans 
出版社:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
出版日期:2010-10-05
語言:英文   
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
電子書
$ 371
樂天KOBO 樂天KOBO
藝術家、建築師與攝影師
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:樂天KOBO   評分:
圖書名稱:Grant Wood

He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.”

Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age.

In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . .

R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America.

We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four).

We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work.

Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.”

Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”

From the Hardcover edition.

贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
讓我陪你等家:來自浪浪別哭的領養故事,終養不棄養的無悔約定
作者:浪浪別哭
出版社:幸福文化
出版日期:2020-04-29
66折: $ 263 
博客來 - 今日66折
深刻認識一個人:發現自己與他人的非凡之處
作者:大衛.布魯克斯 (David Brooks)
出版社:天下文化
出版日期:2024-04-30
66折: $ 297 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
我看出你的內在力量不強:連加恩的屬靈筆記
作者:連加恩
出版社:格子外面
出版日期:2024-11-27
$ 237 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
說謊是因為喜歡你-全
作者:アヒル森下
出版社:長鴻出版社股份有限公司
出版日期:2025-05-23
$ 126 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
miffy潔膚柔濕巾-10抽(橘)
作者:新台
出版社:新台圖書
出版日期:2023-08-30
$ 15 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
miffy潔膚柔濕巾-20抽(黃)
作者:新台
出版社:新台圖書
出版日期:2023-08-30
$ 23 
 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
孔雀王 愛藏版 6 (首刷限定版)
$ 270 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
引發浪潮的少女 無修正※DAV
作者:mogg
出版社:未來數位有限公司
出版日期:2025-05-23
$ 300 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
不點醫師寫給小學生的成長指南:第一次照顧自己就上手!
作者:不點醫師
出版社:時報文化出版企業股份有限公司
出版日期:2025-05-13
$ 294 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
PASSION:人態好攝影集4
$ 513 
 

©2025 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策