Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-TAught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon

Gordon, Ellin, Barbara R. Luck, Tom Patterson, and Laura E. Pass

ISBN 10: 157806029X / ISBN 13: 9781578060290

Edité par Colonial Williamsburg Foundation / University of Mississippi, Williamsburg, VA, 1997

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Glossy white and color-illustrated wraps with red and black lettering. xiii, 161 pp. Color illustrations. "The catalog essays serve as three separate viewpoints on the Gordon collection. We thought this arrangement would be useful to reader who wish to understand the materail through the reactions and ideas first of the collectors; second of a museum curator, Barbara Luck, who has spent more than twenty-five years studying the full range of material often called folk art; and third of a freelance writer, Tom Patterson, whose thoughtul probing brings fresh insight into the environments and experiences that incluenced certain artists' lives and thus their art. Taken together, these essays function not only as personal statements by their authors but also as guides in analyzing the material and its makers, as alternate waus of gaining an appreciate understanding of the forces that shaped this richly imaginative and often provocative art." - quoted from introduction.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-TAught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon
• Éditeur: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation / University of Mississippi, Williamsburg, VA
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 157806029X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781578060290
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: VG- (light tanning to wraps)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Museum Exhibitions - American Art
  • American Art

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Synopsis

American Art from One of the Premier Collections of Work by Self-Taught ArtistsFew aficionados of American folk or self-taught art will open this book and fail to recognize many of the artists whose dynamic work is represented here. At the same time readers will delight in the discovery of new works and new artists in the astonishing collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon. As two of the most passionate collectors of this vibrant, original art, they and their collection are well known to appreciators and scholars as well as to many museums that have mounted exhibitions devoted to American artists classifed as self-taught, naive, folk, outsider, or other.Featured here are works by Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, Leroy Archuleta, Thornton Dial, Inez Nathaniel Walker, Miles Carpenter, Israel Litwak, and many others from across America. For those who wish to learn more about the lives and work of these twentieth-century artists, biographical sketches of seventy-eight are included here.The works reproduced in full-color embody the aesthetic sensibilities of the artists at the moment of creation. They function as a guide to appreciation of this richly imaginative and often provocative art that is known for its innovation, for removing boundaries, and for separation of what has gone before.Essays by Gordon, Luck, and Patterson bring fresh insight into the environments and experiences that have influenced the makers' creations.