Modern Art in the USA(1st Edition) Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century by PatriciaHills Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-036138-7, ISBN: 0-13-036138-0
" This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century—using selections that are contemporary with the art—by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; th ..."
Painting Harlem Modern(1st Edition) The Art of Jacob Lawrence by PatriciaHills Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30550-2, ISBN: 0-520-30550-7
"Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such impo ..."
"For nearly five decades, Jacob Lawrence has been widely regarded as America’s most important black artist. His work is known throughout the world for its depiction of the black American experience from the Civil War to the civil rights movement and beyond. But Lawrence’s paintings are more than a chronicle of this history. He has created a uniquely American vision that affirms the place of all individuals in our society and honors the s ..."
"One of the most prominent American painters of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) worked in a highly personal manner, creating Modernist views of everyday life as well as epic narratives of American history and historical figures. His work is direct and forceful, in keeping with his lifelong conviction that art could effect social change. At the same time, it is essentially humanistic, exploring the many challenges of Afr ..."
Syncopated Rhythms 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection by PatriciaHills, Melissa Renn, Ed Bradley Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 2005 by Boston Univ Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-881450-23-8, ISBN: 1-881450-23-6
"In this catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at Boston University Art Gallery from November 2005 to January 2006, Hills (art history, Boston U.) and Renn (American art, Boston U.) present the art collection of George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, and his wife Joyce. The collection consists of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and a quilt-- done from the 1920s to the 1990s by African American artists, wit ..."
""Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full colour, more than 20 ..."
"This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Diego Timken Art Gallery in 1990. An essay about the painting begins the book, followed by color plates of the painting and preparatory studies. Next are three essays: Marc Simpson's "Taken with a Cranberry Fit: Eastman Johnson on Nantucket", Sally Mill's "'Right Feeling and Sound Technique'": French Art and the Development of Eastman Johnson's Outdoor Genre Paintings" ..."
"Irving Sandler, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (
New York: Harper &: Row, 1978), p. 2. Sandler is here ... Regarding Hofmann's
teaching, see Irving Sandler, "Hans Hofmann: The Pedagogical Master," Art in
America (May /June 197?), pp. 48- 5 5, and Cynthia ... Ortega y Gasset, in his
influential essay "The Dchumanization of Art," first published in 1948, argued that
the goal of modern art was becoming t ..."
"Catalogue of the Exhibition, June 25 - september 28, 1980. With 32 color plates and 187 illustrations. Selected bibliography 8vo pp. 192 broch"
Turn-of-the-century America(1st Edition) Paintings, graphics, photographs, 1890-1910 by PatriciaHills Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 1977 by Whitney Museum Of American Art ISBN-13: 978-0-87427-019-8, ISBN: 0-87427-019-7
"Alice Neel (1900-1984) talks about her life, her ideas on art, and the world at large in this book. She painted well-known figures in art, literature, music, politics as well as her family and friends - depicting them clothed and sometimes naked, thus exposing their vulnerability. Never compromising, she kept to one goal: to paint people as she saw them. By painting individuals with all their idiosyncrasies, Neel also recorded universal ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design is the first exhibition to highlight a pivotal aspect of the collection of the National Academy of Design-the joint presentation of an artist's portrait with his or her masterwork."
"The works of six women artists are highlighted: Alice Austin (1862-1933), Edith Brown (1872-1932), Sara Galner (1894-1982), Edith Guerrier (1870-1958), Mary H. Northend (1850-1926) and Ethel Reed (1874-1912)."
"Written to accompany an upcoming exhibition, "To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama" explores the Gilcrease Museum's collection of Pre-Columbian gold for the first time since its acquisition in the 1940s. The collection, from the Gran CoclE culture of Panama, consists of more than 250 gold objects from early Panama, including effigy pendants, pectorals, cuffs, bands, ear rods, and bells, as well as a ceramics collection.More than a ..."