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Art can help / Robert Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Robert, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society. In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) offers over two-dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that "encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence." Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains essays-more than half of which have never before been published-that contemplate one work or a small group of works by an individual artist. Many of the objects discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays beckon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams's voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.
- Contents:
- Edward Hopper 12
- Edward Hopper 14
- Richard Rothman 18
- Julia Margaret Cameron and Abelardo Morell 20
- Frank Gohlke 24
- Wayne Gudmundson 26
- Ken Abbott 30
- Edward Ranney 32
- Leo Rubinfien 34
- Eric Paddock 36
- Terri Weifenbach 38
- William Wylie 40
- Nicholas Nixon 43
- Garry Winogrand 46
- Mark Ruwedel 48
- Judith Joy Ross 50
- Cuny Janssen 54
- Dorothea Lange 56
- Mitch Epstein 58
- Emmet Gowin 60
- David T. Hanson 62
- John Szarkowski 64
- William S. Sutton 66
- Eugene Buechel 68
- Edward S. Curtis 72
- Anthony Hernandez 74
- Robert Benjamin 77
- Mary Peck 80
- Dorothea Lange 82.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780300229240
- 0300229240
- OCLC:
- 1002122778
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