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6%OFFFrederick Gross - Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience - 9780816670123 - V9780816670123
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Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience

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Description for Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.

In any decade the work of only a very few artists offers a template for understanding the culture and ideas of their time. Photographer Diane Arbus is one of these rare artists, and in this book Frederick Gross returns Arbus’s work to the moment in which it was produced and first viewed to reveal its broader significance for analyzing and mapping the culture of the 1960s. While providing a unique view of the social, literary, and artistic context within which Arbus worked, he also, perhaps for the first time anywhere, measures the true breadth and complexity of her achievement.

Gross considers ... Read more

By shifting critical attention from the myths of Arbus’s biography to the mythmaking of her art, this book gives us a new, informed appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers and a better understanding of the world in which she worked.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670123
SKU
V9780816670123
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About Frederick Gross
Frederick Gross is professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His writing has been published in periodicals such as Cabinet and Afterimage and in the volume Global and Local Art Histories. Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s ... Read more

Reviews for Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience
"We may think we know everything about Diane Arbus just from looking at her photographs, but Frederick Gross has challenged the usual easy readings of Arbus as a gimlet eyed ironist by exploring the artist's philosophical, journalistic and political contexts in depth, and offering many surprising insights into her multifaceted motives and carefully arrived at methods. One comes away with ... Read more

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