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Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
Sarah Burns
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Description for Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
Hardback. Editor(s): Wolfe, M. Melissa. Num Pages: 176 pages, 125 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ACXD9; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 229. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Honoré Sharrer (1920–2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored, humorous, and distinctly feminine paintings combine elements of social realism and surrealism to seductive and disquieting effect. This publication is a timely reevaluation of an artist who pushed the boundaries of figurative painting with playfulness and biting ... Read more
Honoré Sharrer (1920–2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored, humorous, and distinctly feminine paintings combine elements of social realism and surrealism to seductive and disquieting effect. This publication is a timely reevaluation of an artist who pushed the boundaries of figurative painting with playfulness and biting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1224g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300223132
SKU
V9780300223132
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About Sarah Burns
Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of Art History Emerita at Indiana University. Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Anastasia Kinigopoulo is assistant curator at the Columbus Museum of Art. Michael Lobel is professor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York. M. Melissa ... Read more
Reviews for Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
The Association of Art Museum Curators 2017 Award for Excellence, Catalogue or Publication Award Category
The Association of Art Museum Curators
The Association of Art Museum Curators