American epics : Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood / Edited by Austen Barron Bailly ; With contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Matthew Bernstein, Janet C. Blyberg, Sarah N. Chasse, Margaret C. Conrads, Erika Doss, John Herron, Rob LaZebnik, Greil Marcus, Leo G. Mazow, Pellom McDaniels III, Richard J. Powell, and Jake Milgram Wien
- Published
- Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books·Prestel, [2015]
- Physical Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
- Additional Creators
- Bailly, Austen Barron, Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975. Selections, Peabody Essex Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Contents
- The young executive and me / Rob LaZebnik -- Hollywood journey / Thomas Hart Benton -- True west: Thomas Hart Benton and American epics / Austen Barron Bailly -- John Ford, Thomas Hart Benton, and the American frontier / John Herron -- The Grapes of Wrath in pictures / Margaret C. Conrads -- "Dem shoes": Thomas Hart Benton's Romance / Richard J. Powell -- Movie culture in the segregated era / Matthew Bernstein -- Mining the dream factory: Thomas Hart Benton, American artists, and the rise of the movie industry / Erika Doss -- The Hollywood "notes" / Janet C. Blyberg -- Machinery of the industry / Leo G. Mazow -- Thomas Hart Benton and the art of painting cinematically / Jake Milgram Wien -- The year of painting furiously: Thomas Hart Benton, 1942 / Jake Milgram Wien -- Negro soldier: American manhood personified / Pellom McDaniels III -- Why I live where I live / Griel Marcus -- Benton, Hollywood, and history: a timeline / Sarah N. Chasse.
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- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9783791354224
3791354221
9783791365817
3791365819 - Note
- "American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood accompanies the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, in collaboration with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas"--Colophon.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-229) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs; 2015
- Endowment Note
- Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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