American artists in the early decades of the 20th century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theatres and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such technological advances as electrical lighting of the stage and the invention of motion pictures, emboldened artists to translate the arresting stimuli to their own medium. This illustrated work is devoted to American artists' responses to film, popular theatre, and other urban amusements from 1890 to 1930. The volume presents more than 100 paintings, drawings, watercolours and photographs that convey the highly-charged experience of attending vaudeville, early moving-picture shows, and other forms of popular amusements. These works of art reveal much about the beginnings of modernity in the United States and about how artists in early 20th-century America searched for new pictorial vocabularies to express the profound change and dynamism of their time. The contributors to the volume represent a wide variety of expertise - from art history to film to theatre - and they examine works by such key artists as Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Everett Shinn and John Sloan, each of whom found a different formal and stylistic means to portray popular entertainment and, along the way, what it meant to be modern.
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Similar in scope and execution to Donna Gustafson's recently published Images from the World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art, this lovely exhibition catalog of the eponymous art exhibition, curated by McDonnell of the University of Minnesota's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, critically explores the influence of popular entertainment on American visual art from 1890 to 1930. The book is adorned with 95 color plates and 47 black-and-white illustrations, but unlike Images from the World Between, it is the text that steals the show. Among the ten essays explicating the wonder and pervasive influence of vaudeville, film, theater, and burlesque on American artists are contributions from noted academics Rebecca Zurier, Robert Silberman, and David Nashaw, who offers a particularly illuminating piece on the importance of electric lights. Other essays explore the work of specific artists like Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan to reveal the nascent fascination and obsession with emerging forms of mass popular entertainment. A fine scholarly study best suited for academic and specialized collections. Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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This is the catalogue for an exhibition on view at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, from April 27 to August 4, 2002. It then will travel to the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, from September 15, 2002 to January 5, 2003, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, from February 22 to May 18, 2003. Published in association with the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
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