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Fresh Perspectives 0n Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler and George H. Durrie

Fresh Perspectives 0n Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler and George H. Durrie

Maroney, James

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 0578562189
ISBN13: 9780578562186
Publisher: Gala Books Ltd
Published: Jan 1 2019
Pages: 220
Weight: 2.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.20 Depth: 12.10
Language: English

Grant Wood was not as his biographers all insist a simple minded 'bohemian' or 'Regionalist. Almost his entire oeuvre including his most celebrated painting American Gothic was built around phallic imagery! Wood was also keenly aware of the rise of Hitler in Germany, his anti-Semticsm and hjis denounccciation of gays and other social ouytcasts. Knowing himself to be a member of one of these groups Wood expressed his horror of Nazcism in his work but laid it carefully between the lines. Likewise, Charles Sheeler was not as his biographers all insist a 'Precisionist' hooked on the solid forms and straight lines of American factories and barns. He was in fact searching along with other members of the Paris to New York Avant-garde for a way to include the fourth dimension in two-dimensional pictures. And George H. Durrie did not as his one biographer insists paint any of the four 'genre' pictures long attributed to him, which are the work of his lesser-known but superior contemporary James Goodwyn Clonney.

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