Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene - Couverture rigide

Walker, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0891780947 ISBN 13 : 9780891780946

Editeur : St Louis Art Museum,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

This groundbreaking volume is a long-overdue consideration of the life and work of Joe Jones (1909–1963), an American scene painter and social realist from St. Louis. The book examines Jones’s meteoric rise from humble housepainter to established artist of national importance and recognition. It considers his work in terms of its modernism, relationship to Communism and issues of race, as well as the artist’s involvement with locale, ideas about authenticty and social commitment, and the aesthetic debates of the 1930s. Five essays place Joe Jones in social and art-historical context, exploring his significance in the St. Louis art world, the centrality of race and social justice to his life and work, the Dust Bowl, the Ste. Genevieve art colony, and Jones's years in New York.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Walker is assistant director for curatorial affairs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The other contributors are Debra Bricker Balken, Kevin Sharp, Janeen Turk, and M. Melissa Wolfe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Louis Art Museum,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0891780947
• ISBN 13: 9780891780946
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible