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Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work.

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EditorePrinceton University Press.
Data di pubbl.
Dettagli cm.24x28, pp.272, illustrato a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori.
AbstractA major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent émigré from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. “Grandma Moses,” as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training. Drawing on Moses’s reflection on her own life as “a good day’s work,” the book charts.
EAN9780691272412
CondizioniNuovo
EUR 49.00
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