John Steuart Curry,9781555951399

John Steuart Curry

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ISBN13: 9781555951399
ISBN10: 1555951392
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-04-01
Publisher(s): Hudson Hills Pr
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Summary

This long-awaited volume marks the centennial of an important and controversial artist, one of the great American Regionalists. Essays cover every aspect of his life and work, and reproduce his finest paintings and drawings of farm life in Kansas, the circus, and the American scene in general.

Table of Contents

DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD 7(2)
RUSSELL PANCZENKO
CURATOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9(2)
PATRICIA JUNKER
Color Plates
11(62)
John Curry
73(4)
THOMAS H. BENTON
John Steuart Curry: A Critical Assessment
77(12)
THEODORE F. WOLFF
Prairie Prodigal: John Steuart Curry and Kansas
89(22)
CHARLES C. ELDREDGE
Space, Weather, Myth, and Abstraction in the Art of John Steuart Curry
111(22)
HENRY ADAMS
The Use of Religious Motifs in Curry's Art
133(18)
ROBERT L. GAMBONE
John Steuart Curry and the Pathos of Modern Life: Paintings of the Outcast and the Dispossessed
151(14)
PATRICIA JUNKER
Alien Corn: An Artist on the Middle Border
165(18)
M. SUE KENDALL
A Stranger to the Ivory Tower: John Steuart Curry and the University of Wisconsin
183(12)
LUCY J. MATHIAK
Twilight of Americanism's Golden Age: Curry's Wisconsin Years, 1936-46
195(16)
PATRICIA JUNKER
The Life and Career of John Steuart Curry: An Annotated Chronology
211(30)
PATRICIA JUNKER
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 241(4)
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION 245(1)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 246(1)
INDEX 247(5)
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS 252

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