Grant Wood a life R. Tripp Evans
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: A Borzoi bookPublisher: New York, NY Knopf 2010Edition: 1. edDescription: XII, 402 S., [8] Bl zahlr. Ill 25 cmContent type:- Text
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 030726629X
- 9780307266293
- 759.13 B 22
- ND237.W795
- 20.31
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | R (Reference collection) | R:ND237.W795 E93 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1662 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-380) and index
Introduction -- Paint like a man -- American, Gothic -- Wood into stone -- A fabled life -- Epilogue.
Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure," recognized 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, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple
There are no comments on this title.