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Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s
Myers Barker
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Description for Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s
Hardcover. Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States."" This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 1940s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 130 colour & duotone reproductions. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1429.
Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States.""This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 1940s, the decade of their genesis and greatest innovation. These ""genuine citizens of the world,"" as Hickey called them, possessed an unconventional vision that radically sidestepped the traditional art of post-Depression Texas. Drawing from their own fertile imaginations, the members of the Circle responded to modern art by creating a unique ... Read more
Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States.""This book chronicles the Circle's distinctive output during the 1940s, the decade of their genesis and greatest innovation. These ""genuine citizens of the world,"" as Hickey called them, possessed an unconventional vision that radically sidestepped the traditional art of post-Depression Texas. Drawing from their own fertile imaginations, the members of the Circle responded to modern art by creating a unique ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Keith Carter
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780883601037
SKU
V9780883601037
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About Myers Barker
JANE MYERS is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author and coauthor of several publications, including An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum. SCOTT GRANT BARKER, a long-time resident of Fort Worth, is a cultural historian who has made the Fort Worth Circle the focus of ... Read more
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