Monumental Dreams : The Life and Sculpture of Ann Norton /

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In 1929, the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors, showing the astonishing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant garde artists. Young American artists quickly responded by experimenting with impressionism, cubism, and abstraction. In Monumental Dreams, author Caroline Seebohm tells the riv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seebohm, Caroline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Norton, Ann Weaver, > 1905-1982.
Women sculptors.
Sculpture, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
Sculpture americaine.
Sculptrices > États-Unis > Biographies.
Women sculptors > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In 1929, the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors, showing the astonishing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant garde artists. Young American artists quickly responded by experimenting with impressionism, cubism, and abstraction. In Monumental Dreams, author Caroline Seebohm tells the riveting story of how Ann Norton (1905-1982)-a child of the South who had eschewed her Alabama roots to become a sculptor in New York City-joined this new guard. She studied with John Hovannes and Jose de Creeft and was studio assistant to Alexander Archipenko. Her work was well received, and.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813048789

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