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Item Details
| Title:
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TO MAKE A WORLD
GEORGE AULT AND 1940S AMERICA |
| By: |
Alexander Nemerov |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300172397 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300172393 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
156 |
| Description: |
An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. This book features nearly twenty of Ault's paintings alongside those of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth. |
| Synopsis: |
An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window onto the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920s, Ault eventually withdrew from both artistic and political worlds in 1937 and set up his studio in a tiny house in Woodstock, New York, where he produced evocative scenes of barns, telephone wires, and streetlights that utilize precise alignments and geometries to impose a symbolic order on a world in crisis. To Make a World is the first publication on Ault in more than two decades, and it features nearly twenty of Ault's paintings alongside those of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, and Andrew Wyeth. Author Alexander Nemerov explains that despite Ault's remote location and reclusive lifestyle, his paintings represent his fear for the precarious state of the world and reflect an emotional response shared by many artists and the nation at large. |
| Illustrations: |
24 b-w + 63 color illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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