Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal: Fanfare for the Common Man - Couverture rigide

Garner, Gretchen

 
9780821422021: Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal: Fanfare for the Common Man
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ISBN 10 : 0821422022 ISBN 13 : 9780821422021
Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2016

Synopsis

When Winold Reiss won the commission to design and install the immense mosaic murals in the Cincinnati Union Terminal in 1931, he was already a noted artist. After immigrating to the United States from Germany in 1913, he quickly had become a sought-after portraitist and designer of large public art projects.

The Cincinnati Union Terminal murals are extraordinary not only for their size and the boldness of their color and design but also for the artist's use of mosaic, an unusual choice for the time. After Reiss's death, he and his work fell into relative obscurity as tastes and trends in art changed. The terminal itself closed in 1972 and was partially demolished. It reopened in 1990, transformed into the Cincinnati Museum Center, and the awe-inspiring murals of the rotunda are once again on view to visitors.

Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal collects full-color images of the mosaic murals, including those rescued before the demolition. Gretchen Garner traces the inception of the mural project and the selection of Reiss to design and construct it, as well as Reiss's own development as an American artist and the artistic and historical context for the work. In this book, these evocative and vibrant murals--a signal work of public art in Ohio and in the nation--finally get the attention they deserve.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gretchen Garner is an art historian and the author of Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography. She curated and wrote the exhibition catalogs for Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land and Six Ideas in Photography: A Celebration of Photography's Sesquicentennial.

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Éditeur
Ohio University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0821422022
ISBN 13 
9780821422021
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780821422038: Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal: Fanfare for the Common Man

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0821422030 ISBN 13 :  9780821422038
Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2016
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