Midcentury Modern Art in Texas / / Katie Robinson Edwards.
Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was Texas, where artists absorbed and interpreted the latest, most radic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Modernist Impulse and Texas Art
- 2. The 1930s and the Texas Centennial
- 3. Houston and the Foundations of Early Texas Modernism
- 4. Early Practitioners of Abstraction and Nonobjectivity
- 5. The Fort Worth Circle
- 6. The University of Texas at Austin in the 1940s and 1950s
- 7. The 1950s and Houston
- 8. Sculpture in and around the Studio of Charles Williams
- 9. Are Texans American?
- Postscript
- Appendix. Selected Artists’ Biographies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index