Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision

Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision

Dust jacket notes: "One of America's major regionalist painters, Grant Wood is best known for his portrayal of a stern country couple standing in front of an American Gothic farmhouse. With humor and tenderness, Iowa-born Wood transformed national lore and rituals of rural Midwestern life into such memorable images as American Gothic, Dinner for Threshers, Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Daughters of Revolution, Fall Plowing, and Parson Weems' Fable. Wanda Corn vividly recounts Wood's boyhood on a farm, his youth in Cedar Rapids, his development as a regionalist, and his eventual fame. Her book is filled with Wood's famous and little-known work, as well as with documentary photographs and samples of the hundreds of caricatures spawned by American Gothic. Today, when scholars are beginning to reassess Wood's work and museums clamor for his paintings, this book will stand as an authoritative and fascinating record of one of America's favorite artists. Publication will coincide with the opening of a major retrospective of Wood's work. The exhibition will begin at the Whitney Museum of America Art in New York, and will then travel to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (where the exhibition was organized), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco."
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale Univ Pr
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780300031034
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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