Youth and beauty : art of the American twenties /

Accompanying a nationally touring exhibition, this critical history of American art of the 1920s provides a fresh perspective on the strikingly original modernist imagery of the Jazz Age. Youth and Beauty is the first wide-ranging look at American art during the period following the Great War and be...

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Corporate Authors: Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Other Authors: Carbone, Teresa A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Brooklyn, NY : Skira Rizzoli ; Brooklyn Museum, [2011]
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ISBN:9780847837250 (hardcover)
9780872731677 (paperback)
0872731677
0847837254
9780847836840
0847836843
Table of Contents:
  • Convincing lies: reckoning with the modern / Teresa A. Carbone
  • Body language: liberation and restraint in Twenties figuration / Teresa A. Carbone
  • Silent pictures: encounters with a remade world / Teresa A. Carbone
  • Contesting modernity at the kitchen table: American still life in the Twenties / Bonnie Costello
  • "Go forth all to seek America": modernist photographers of the Twenties / Sarah M. Lowe
  • Reconsidering the 'soil': the Stieglitz circle, the regionalists and cultural eugenics in the Twenties / Randall R. Griffey.