Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950 - Softcover

Beth Venn; Adam D. Weinberg

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9780756757977: Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950

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ISBN 10: 0756757975 ISBN 13: 9780756757977

Publisher: Univ. of California Press, 1999

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Presents works from the Whitney Museum (WM) of American Art. Highlights different readings of selected works from 1900 to 1950 in the WM Permanent Collection (PC). Chap. 1: a biography of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; covers the decades that led to the opening of the WM in 1931. Chap. 2: devoted to 26 key objects in the PC -- paintings, sculptures, & works on paper -- are treated from varying aesthetic, social, cultural, & biographical perspectives. Chap. 3: focuses on 10 icons in the PC that call to mind some of the greatest achievements of 20th cent. Amer. art. Each of the 10 icons is accompanied by the words of 3 different writers from different disciplines, 30 writers. Profusely illustrated.

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About the Author:

Adam D. Weinberg, formerly senior curator, Permanent Collection, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Beth Venn is curator of traveling exhibitions and director of branch museums at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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''Most thought provoking and stimulating.'' --The Art Newspaper

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