Artful cats : discoveries from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art / Mary Savig.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Savig, Mary, author.

Contributor:

Archives of American Art, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives of American Art--Catalogs.

Archives of American Art.

Cats--United States--Anecdotes.

Cats.

Artists.

United States.

Artists--United States--Anecdotes.

Human-animal relationships--Anecdotes.

Human-animal relationships.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Washington, DC : Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, [2019]

Summary:

Cats, cats, and more cats! Expressive or aloof, affectionate or enigmatic, cats have complicated characters that make them compelling artists' muses. 'Artful Cats' explores the quirky and charming relationships of artists with their cats in 130 rarely seen photos, paintings, sketches, manuscripts, and letters from the Archives of American Art.0Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Louise Nevelson, Marcel Breuer, Yves Tanguy, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Weston, Robert Indiana, Judy Chicago, Berenice Abbott, and Romare Bearden show off their artful cats, which appear as companions, inspirations, instigators, and often regents of the home or studio. The images, culled from the archive's extensive holdings from the nineteenth century through today, celebrate our cultural heritage through our enduring fascination, love, and bemusement with our feline familiars. 0A foreword by Kate Haw, director of the Archives of American Art, describes how these archival treasures provide a window on unexpected and personal details of celebrated artists' lives and work.

Contents:

Strike a pose

Cats in the studio

Everyday life

Cats and the creative process

On the subject of cats

Cats as art

Cat correspondence.

ISBN:

9781616897901

1616897902

OCLC:

1047530493