Subversion and surrealism in the art of Honoré Sharrer / edited by M. Melissa Wolfe ; essays by Sarah Burns, Robert Cozzolino, Michael Lobel, M. Melissa Wolfe, Adam Desmond Zagorin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Sarah, author.

Cozzolino, Robert, 1970- author.

Lobel, Michael, author.

Zagorin, Adam Desmond, 1953- author.

Contributor:

Wolfe, M. Melissa, 1963- editor, author.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sharrer, Honoré, 1920-2009--Exhibitions.

Sharrer, Honoré.

Sharrer, Honoré, 1920-2009.

Women artists--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Women artists.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[Columbus, OH] : Columbus Museum of Art ; [Philadelphia, PA] : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [2016]

Summary:

"This book offers the first critical reassessment of an artist whose mature oeuvre constitutes a rich and often disquieting critique that is equal parts wit, seduction, and bite. Honoré Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major figure in the years surrounding World War II, though her commitment to leftist ideals and an alternate trajectory of surrealism put her at increasing odds with the political and artistic climate of the time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Adam Desmond Zagorin

From May Queen to Workers and Paintings : Honoré Sharrer's early trajectory / Michael Lobel

Plucking and poking : Honoré Sharrer and the art of mockery / Sarah Burns

Vicious, tender, meticulous : Honoré Sharrer's "communist" surrealism in the post-war era / M. Melissa Wolfe

"Certainly not casting stones" : Honoré Sharrer's religious imagery / Robert Cozzolino

Plates

Chronology / Anastasia Kinigopoulo.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher website.

"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer: Columbus Museum of Art, February 10-May 21, 2017; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 30-September 3, 2017; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, September 21, 2017-January 7, 2018"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780300223132

0300223137

OCLC:

957138859