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The Unknown Blakelock
Janovy
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Description for The Unknown Blakelock
Paperback. Editor(s): Janovy, Karen O. Num Pages: 80 pages, 39 color Illus., 2 b/w Illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 228 x 8. Weight in Grams: 449.
The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on Ralph A. Blakelock (1847–1919) by addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in the exhibition’s paintings. A self-taught artist, Blakelock digressed from habitual procedures into stylistic experiments that were considerably in advance of common practice of the time. Associated primarily with the two dominant themes of moonlight views and Indian encampments, Blakelock was already acknowledged as a colorist during his career, an aspect of his painting attesting to his receptivity to modernist developments but largely overlooked in critical discourse. The works featured in this exhibition also attest to a salient characteristic of ... Read more
The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on Ralph A. Blakelock (1847–1919) by addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in the exhibition’s paintings. A self-taught artist, Blakelock digressed from habitual procedures into stylistic experiments that were considerably in advance of common practice of the time. Associated primarily with the two dominant themes of moonlight views and Indian encampments, Blakelock was already acknowledged as a colorist during his career, an aspect of his painting attesting to his receptivity to modernist developments but largely overlooked in critical discourse. The works featured in this exhibition also attest to a salient characteristic of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Seattle, WA, United States
ISBN
9780977802876
SKU
V9780977802876
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About Janovy
Karen O. Janovy is curator of education at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is editor of Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Nebraska 2007) and is coeditor (with Norman A. Geske) and compiler of The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Nebraska 1988). In 2006 Janovy received a Governor's Arts ... Read more
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