This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel Marsden Brooks, William Michael Harnett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The effects on this form of such movements as realism, impressionism, tonalism, orphism, and modernism are discussed in ...
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This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel Marsden Brooks, William Michael Harnett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The effects on this form of such movements as realism, impressionism, tonalism, orphism, and modernism are discussed in detail. The study concludes with 1939, when American art began to be dominated by abstraction.
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VG/VG. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine 293 pp. 32 color, 144 bw repros. A massive work with 32 full-page plates. Eleven chapter headings include "American Still-Life Painting: Explanations, Estimations, Expectations"; "In The Beginning"; "The Peale Dynasty"; "Beyond The Peales: Professional and Folk"; "An Abundance of Still Life: The Still Life of Abundance"; "Thematic Expansion: Flowers, Fish and Dead Game"; "The Poetic Flower"; "William Michael Harnett and Illusionism"; "The Still-Life Heritage of Munich and Paris"; "The Still Life in Early Modernism"; "Vernacular Modernism: Cubist-Realist Still Life and Beyond". Very lengthy bibliography, both of general works and of individual artists, index, index to illustrations. A terrific resource to have at one's fingertips.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel Marsden Brooks, William Michael Harnett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The effects on this form of such movements as realism, impressionism, tonalism, orphism, and modernism are discussed in detail. The study concludes with 1939, when American art began to be dominated by abstraction.
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G (No dj; few marks from previous gallery owner; small tear to binding at bottom of rear cover. ) Red cloth, gilt letters on spine 293 pp. 32 color, 144 bw repros. A massive work with 32 full-page plates. Eleven chapter headings include "American Still-Life Painting: Explanations, Estimations, Expectations"; "In The Beginning"; "The Peale Dynasty"; "Beyond The Peales: Professional and Folk"; "An Abundance of Still Life: The Still Life of Abundance"; "Thematic Expansion: Flowers, Fish and Dead Game"; "The Poetic Flower"; "William Michael Harnett and Illusionism"; "The Still-Life Heritage of Munich and Paris"; "The Still Life in Early Modernism"; "Vernacular Modernism: Cubist-Realist Still Life and Beyond". Very lengthy bibliography, both of general works and of individual artists, index, index to illustrations. A terrific resource to have at one's fingertips.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. Quarto, cloth hardbound in dust jacket, 293 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, minor rubbing or soil to the edges of the cloth covers, light soil or discoloration to the dust jacket, a bit of rubbing or very light wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket including minor scuffing or creasing at the tips. Uncommon in such nice shape.
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1981 Gerdts, William PAINTERS OF THE HUMBLE TRUTH; MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN STILL LIFE 1801-1939 Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981 293pp, index, black and white, color illustrations tall 4to Fine hardcover in Very Good+ d/j; spine panel lightly sunned.
