The American West: The Modern Vision
Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1984. Hardbound. Blue cloth with glossy, color-illustrated dustjacket. 350 pp., 100 color and 297 bw plates. Signed and inscribed by author to Ira Spanierman on title half page. VG/Good, (light shelfwear to boards, pages are otherwise clean. Dust jacket has overall light shelfwear). Item #115194
ISBN: 9780821215784
A wonderful source of color and bw images of late 20th Century American western artists' works. Contents include: Foreword / Charles C. Eldredge -- The twentieth-century West: fantasy and fact -- The American Impressionists -- Robert Henri: the artist as pioneer -- John Sloan's New Mexico: a celebration of life -- The Realist vision: the life and the land -- Modernism: the legacy of Alfred Stieglitz and the Armory Show -- Marsden Hartley: in search of American icons -- Georgia O'Keeffe: a visionary realist -- John Marin: a watercolor legacy -- New images of Taos -- Modernism in Santa Fe -- American Indian Modernists -- New directions -- A return to Realism -- The modern vision: continuity and change -- Chapter notes.
OCLC: 10711038
Price: $29.97