Roger Cardinal

Gwendolen Webster

Text by Roger Cardinal. Gwendolen Webster.

Kurt Schwitters: A Journey Through Art

A stunning book featuring full-color reproductions of art by American self-taught artists. Distributed for the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Contemporary American Self-taught Art from the Collection of Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen

Pictured in My Mind

Breton, Nadja

Richard Grayson

Clare Carolin

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 17 September - 11 November 2006, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, 27 January - 15 April 2007, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 5 May - 29 July 2007.

Art, Compulsion, Concealment

A Secret Service

Jane Kallir

Moses (Grandma)

"Grandma Moses and her paintings first came to public attention in 1940, when she was 80 years old. Her folk art, down-home personality, and background as a farmer and homemaker charmed the American public. By the time she died at the age of 101, she had completed over 1600 works of art and had established an international reputation. The work of "the white-haired girl," a self-taught artist who was a regular news feature for two decades, remained enormously popular at home and abroad even in the years after her death." "For this reevaluation of the work of Grandma Moses, Jane Kallir contributes an authoritative introduction and presents a catalogue that illustrates 87 of Moses' most important works. Kallir traces Moses' development as an artist from the first embroidered landscapes to the glorious paintings of her "old-age style." The Grandma Moses myth is tackled from various perspectives. Roger Cardinal examines the artist's working methods, exploring the relationship between the actual regional landscape and her interpretation of the area. Michael D. Hall places Moses within the context of contemporary artistic and social movements of the 1940s and 1950s. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan reveals how memory and imagination merge in the paintings. And Judith E. Stein discusses the role of gender in shaping the artist's reputation in the postwar years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Grandma Moses in the 21st Century

This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the "Other" and the marginal – the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious. There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage. Others examine imperialist encounters with remote cultures – the consquitadors in America in the sixteenth century, and the British in the Pacific in the eighteenth – and the more recent collectors of popular culture, be they of Swatch watches, Elvis Presley memorabilia or of packaging and advertising. With essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.

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