Frames of Reference,9780520218871

Frames of Reference

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ISBN13: 9780520218871
ISBN10: 0520218876
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

An innovative guide to modern American art, with essays by a wide range of artists, critics, and writers.

Table of Contents

Foreword 8(2)
Maxwell L. Anderson
Introduction 10(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
The Whitney: Biography of an Institution 12(6)
LOVE AND STRUGGLE: GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY
Kennedy Fraser
18(42)
VISUAL CONTEXTS FOR AMERICAN ART
John Sloan, The Picnic Grounds
60(2)
Kate Rubin
Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman
62(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant
64(2)
Kate Rubin
Charles Burchfield, Noontide in Late May
66(2)
Kate Rubin
Marsden Hartley, Landscape, New Mexico
68(2)
Angela Kramer Murphy
John Storrs, Forms in Space #1
70(2)
Beth Venn
Arthur Dove, The Critic
72(2)
Beth Venn
Charles Sheeler, Interior
74(2)
Kate Rubin
Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother
76(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Gerald Murphy, Cocktail
78(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh
80(2)
Kate Rubin
Georgia O'Keeffe, The White Calico Flower
82(2)
Angela Kramer Murphy
Charles Sheeler, River Rouge Plant
84(2)
Angela Kramer Murphy
Grant Wood, Study for Breaking the Prairie
86(28)
Kathryn Potts
AMERICAN ICONS INTERPRETED
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge
114(12)
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
115(4)
Henry Petroski
119(3)
John You
122(4)
William J. Glackens, Hammerstein's Roof Garden
126(10)
Kathryn Harrison
127(3)
Lewis Erenberg
130(3)
Brendan Gill
133(3)
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
136(10)
Alfred Kazin
137(3)
Alan M. Dershowitz
140(3)
Frances K. Pohl
143(3)
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo
146(12)
Elliott J. Gorn
147(5)
George Plimpton
152(2)
Marianne Doezema
154(4)
Charles Demuth, My Egypt
158(10)
Karal Ann Marling
159(3)
Lisa Mahar
162(3)
Maurice Berger
165(3)
Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus
168
Howard Gardner
169(3)
Robert Wilson
172(1)
Neil Harris
173
Raphael Soyer, Office Girls
88(2)
Kathryn Potts
Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie
90(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Burgoyne Diller, First Theme
92(2)
Naomi Urabe
Man Ray, La Fortune
94(2)
Beth Venn
Philip Evergood, Lily and the Sparrows
96(2)
Angela Kramer Murphy
Theodore Roszak, Bi-Polar in Red
98(2)
Beth Venn
Andrew Wyeth, Winter Fields
100(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Richard Pousette-Dart, Within the Room
102(2)
Adam D. Weinberg
Jacob Lawrence, War Series: Another Patrol
104(2)
Beth Venn
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night
106(2)
Kathryn Potts
Edward Hopper, Seven A.M.
108(2)
Angela Kramer Murphy
Stuart Davis, Owh! in San Pao
110(66)
Angela Kramer Murphy
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning
176(10)
John Updike
177(3)
Robert Adams
180(2)
Brian O'Doherty
182(4)
Georgia O'Keeffe, Summer Days
186(10)
Kathleen Norris
187(2)
Anne M. Wagner
189(4)
Sarah Whitaker Peters
193(3)
Elie Nadelman, Tango
196(8)
Richard Martin
197(3)
Martin Puryear
200(2)
Henry Glassie
202(2)
Marsden Hartley, Painting, Number 5
204(10)
Peter Gay
205(3)
Charles Eldredge
208(3)
Patricia McDonnell
211(3)
Acknowledgments 214(2)
Beth Venn
Adam D. Weinberg
Notes on the Contributors 216

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