From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1959. Hardcover. VG (Previous owner's name written at ffep). Black cloth. 93 pp. 5 color, 15 bw plates. Sections include Painting Before The Armory Show (Harnett, George DeForest Brush, Sargent, Bellows); Naturalism in Painting and Naturalism in Philosophy; Pioneer Modernism (Maurice Prendergast); The Influence of Cubism (Stuart Davis); Early Romanticism (Weber, Marin); A New Classicism (Sheeler, O'Keeffe); Later Romanticism (Hartley, Kuniyoshi); Romantic Realism (Marsh, Hopper); A Different Climate of Painting; (truncated) Imagination, Fanciful and Realistic (Graves, A. Wyeth); The Painting of Ideas (Lebrun, Levine, Blume); An Imagery of Ultimates (Bloom, Albright); Action-Painting (Hofmann, Stamos) Coloristic Purism (Rothko). Almost all the paintings illustrated are from the collection of the University of Nebraska Art slislide presentation. These essays were originally written as lectures for a seminar, and have been slightly modified for book form. (Inventory #: 6946)