Images of America : precisionist painting and modern photography / Karen Tsujimoto.

Main entry:

Tsujimoto, Karen.

Title & Author:

Images of America : precisionist painting and modern photography / Karen Tsujimoto.

Publication:

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition scheduled to be held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other institutions, Sept. 9, 1982-Oct. 9, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
America, 1900-1920 : the formative years in industry and art -- Precisionism : a definition -- European influences and parallels -- Ambivalence about urbanization -- Charles Sheeler : precisionist painter and modern photographer -- American photography : parallels to precisionism -- Formative influences on American photography -- The California group -- Photography in the thirties -- Changes in the times.
Text by Karen Tsujimoto.

Summary:

" ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisioniwsm, was emerging."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

0295959355
9780295959351
0295959312 (pbk.)
9780295959313 (pbk.)

Subject:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibitions.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Catalogues.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Precisionism United States Exhibitions.
Painting, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography United States Exhibitions.
Photography, Abstract Exhibitions.
Photography United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Peinture États-Unis 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie États-Unis Expositions.
États-Unis dans l'art Expositions.
Précisionnisme États-Unis Expositions.
Peinture américaine 20e siècle Expositions.
Painting, American
Photography
Precisionism
Peinture 20e siècle Etats-Unis.
Photographie Etats-Unis.
Etats-Unis dans l'art.
Précisionnisme Etats-Unis.
United States In art Exhibitions.
United States
Art, American - 20th century - 1910-1945.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19496
Call No.: ID:87-B6676
Status: Available

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