Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection

Author

Virginia M. Mecklenburg, with contributions by Karen Lemmey, Joann Moser, and E. Carmen Ramos

Description

In eighty-eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O’Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann—all illustrating the complexity and energy of a distinctly American modernism.

An introductory essay by Virginia Mecklenburg sketches the exchanges that quickened this artistic transformation. Each work is superbly illustrated and discussed within the context of the artist’s career and concerns. These insightful explorations of thirty-three inventive artists illuminate the wider arc of modernism.

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$39.95softcover

$54.95hardcover

Product Details

Co-Publisher: Copublished with D Giles Ltd.
Year Published: 2015
Subjects: Painting - Museum Books
Pages: 232 pp.: Ill.
ISBN: Hardcover: 978-1-907804-80-9
Softcover: 978-0-937311-79-0

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