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Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
Margaret K Hofer
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Description for Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
Hardcover. Features one hundred American folk art objects acquired by avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadelman and his wife Viola Speiss Flannery Nadelman. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFTB; AGC; WCU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 288 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2248.
'Making it Modern' features approximately 100 folk art objects acquired by the avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadelman and his wife, Viola, between 1919 and 1934, when the couple were forced to find a buyer for their vast collection of 70,000 pieces. Most were bought by the New-York Historical Society in 1937. This substantial volume presents all of the objects in full-colour plates, covering a huge range of geographic areas and media, including Pennsylvania German folk art, imposing large-scale wooden sculptures and oil portrait paintings, 19th-century metal and wooden toys, drawings and watercolours and household tools and small objects. Archival photographs ... Read more
'Making it Modern' features approximately 100 folk art objects acquired by the avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadelman and his wife, Viola, between 1919 and 1934, when the couple were forced to find a buyer for their vast collection of 70,000 pieces. Most were bought by the New-York Historical Society in 1937. This substantial volume presents all of the objects in full-colour plates, covering a huge range of geographic areas and media, including Pennsylvania German folk art, imposing large-scale wooden sculptures and oil portrait paintings, 19th-century metal and wooden toys, drawings and watercolours and household tools and small objects. Archival photographs ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
GILES
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907804298
SKU
V9781907804298
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