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Grant Wood a life R. Tripp Evans

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: A Borzoi bookPublisher: New York, NY Knopf 2010Edition: 1. edDescription: XII, 402 S., [8] Bl zahlr. Ill 25 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 030726629X
  • 9780307266293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 759.13 B 22
LOC classification:
  • ND237.W795
Other classification:
  • 20.31
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: 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
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single unit book 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
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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

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