Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman - Couverture rigide

Hofer, Margaret K; Olson, Roberta J M

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1907804293 ISBN 13 : 9781907804298

Editeur : D Giles Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive study of the folk art collection purchased by the New-York Historical Society from Elie and Viola Nadelman in 1937. Exhibited by the couple from 1926 to 1937 in their pioneering Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts in Riverdale, New York, the nearly fifteen thousand works come from a collection spanning six centuries, thirteen countries, and a broad range of media.

Authors Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson explore a nucleus of some two hundred and sixteen highlights in eighty-seven catalog entries, as well as nine of Nadelman's own sculptures, and consider the possible interchanges between the Nadelman's collecting and his avant-garde art.

Their research, employing new archival evidence from the Historical Society and the rich cache of Nadelman Papers, has resulted in exciting discoveries, among them Nadelman's active role in restoring some of his folk art objects.

Featuring seven provocative essays, Making It Modern breaks new ground not only on the Nadelmans and folk art, but also in the history of American art and taste during the fast-paced cultural revolutions of the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Margaret K. Hofer is curator of Decorative Arts at the New-York Historical Society. She is the author of Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York (2011), A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls (with Martin Eidelberg and Nina Gray, 2007; German and Dutch editions, 2009), The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games (2003), and Seat of Empire(with Roberta J.M. Olson, 2002).

Roberta J.M. Olson is curator of drawings at the New- York Historical Society and Professor Emerita of Art History at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. She is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Audubon s Aviary: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America (2012), Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society (2008), The Biography of the Object in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Art (2006), and The Florentine Tondo (2000).

Elizabeth Stillinger is an independent scholar.

Kenneth L. Ames is professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City.

Cynthia Nadelman is an independent scholar and writer.

Barbara Haskell is the curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D Giles Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907804293
• ISBN 13: 9781907804298
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 375
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible