Grandma Moses : American modern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, Grandma, 1860-1961, artist.

Contributor:

Denenberg, Thomas Andrew, 1967- writer of supplementary textual content.

Wolterstorff, Robert Paul, 1960- writer of supplementary textual content.

Franklin, Jamie, writer of supplementary textual content.

Korzenik, Diana, 1941- writer of supplementary textual content.

Nemerov, Alexander, writer of supplementary textual content.

Shelburne Museum, host institution.

Bennington Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moses, Grandma, 1860-1961--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Moses.

Moses, Grandma, 1860-1961.

Primitivism in art--United States--Exhibitions.

Primitivism in art.

Painters.

Seasons in art.

Themes, motives.

United States.

Seasons in art--Exhibitions.

Country life in art--Exhibitions.

Country life in art.

Painters--United States--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm

Other Title:

American modern

Place of Publication:

New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. ; Shelburne, VT : Shelburne Museum ; Bennington, VT : Bennington Museum, 2016.

Summary:

A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art. One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860 1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day "folk" painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars examine Moses s name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in American pop culture; address the myth of the self-taught artist; and contextualize her work alongside such contemporaries as Horace Pippin, Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Hirshfield." Exhibition: Shelborne Museum, Vermont, USA (06-10.2016) / Bennington Museum, Vermont, USA (06-10.2017).

Contents:

Foreword / Thomas Denenberg and Robert Wolterstorff

Moses, MoMA, and the Modernist Narrative / Jamie Franklin

Anna Mary Robertson Moses: Rethinking Self-Taught / Diana Korzenik

The Gifted Child: Shirley Jackson and Grandma Moses

The New Detached House: Grandma Moses and 1950s America

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Shelburne Museum, Vermont, June 18-October 30, 2016; and Bennington Museum, Vermont, July 1-November 5, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Moses, Grandma, 1860-1961. Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

9780847849239

0847849236

9780847847624

0847847624

OCLC:

951748561