ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1991.
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Slikarstvo
Autor: Strani

Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950 / Estill Curtis Pennington



Gretna, Luizijana - SAD 1991. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, bogato ilustrovano, 208 strana.
Napomena: pečat prethodnog vlasnika; ako se to izuzme, knjiga je odlično očuvana.


`The presence of the Mississippi River and the proximity of the Gulf of Mexico were the mainstream sources for the implicitno fluidity of Louisiana life. `Currents` is also a useful metaphor for compositional approaches, technical means, and instructional resources available to the practicing artist in Louisiana.`


The diverse cultural background of Louisiana has always ensured a varied and widely influenced canon of artistic styles. From the French and Spanish Baroque style of colonial Louisiana portraiture to the impressionistic and arts and crafts tendencies of the Woodward brothers and the Newcomb School of potters to the caricaturish surrealistic styles and postpainterly abstraction of the New Orleans modernists, artistic styles practiced in Louisiana tended to reflect the trends and themes of popular European and American art movements.
Though reflective of international movements, Louisiana painting between 1800 and 1950 exhibits a remarkable distance from these same movements. Many trends in style in the international art world were only marginally represented in Louisiana, while others flourished. Local artists tended to adapt and respond to current styles to reflect their own sense of place and being. The presence of the Mississippi River was a constant agent which worked to produce the `currents of style` that affected the works of Louisiana painters, presented in the traditional forms of portraiture, landscape, genre painting, and nonrepresentationalism.
In Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950, Estill Curtis Pennington examines the effect of national as well as international (primarily European) themes and trends on Louisiana painting from the colonial period to the modernist age of the twentieth century. Artists discussed include Jose de Salazar, William Edward West, John James Audubon, Robert Brammer, Richard Clague, John McCrady, George L. Viavant, William and Ellsworth Woodward, Paul Ninas, Elizabeth Laughlin, Conrad Albrizio, and Helen Turner.
Pennington is the acdjunct curator of American painting at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and is the author of several books and articles on Southern art. He currently resides in Paris, Kentucky, making frequent trips to New Orleans.