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The paintings and drawings of John Dos Passos : a collection and study
- Title
- The paintings and drawings of John Dos Passos : a collection and study / Donald Pizer, Lisa Nanney and Richard Layman.
- Author
- Pizer, Donald
- Publication
- Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 17-431 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- xii, 103 pages, 64 pages of plates : color illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- In addition to being a major twentieth-century author, John Dos Passos painted, principally in watercolor, throughout his career. This book reproduces 68 examples of Dos Passos' art, almost all in full color, presented in two parts containing 13 sections. In Part One, each section is devoted to a similar kind of art work produced within a specific time frame; in Part Two, each section consists of work in a specific genre. The book also includes essays devoted to the history and nature of Dos Passos' work as a pictorial artist and to the relationship of this work to his novels. It concludes with a survey of Dos Passos' art collections, exhibitions, and previous published illustrations and paintings. The book as a whole seeks to demonstrate that Dos Passos' lifelong commitment to and practice of pictorial representation are vital aspects of his career because they confirm and manifest in both verbal and visual stylistics such modernist tendencies as Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism. Both the essays and illustrations in this book argue for the importance of Dos Passos' paintings as keys to fully understanding the writer's complex body of work and, in their striking compositions and vibrant colors, as challenging objects of visual pleasure in their own right.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98) and index.
- Call Number
- JQF 17-431
- ISBN
- 9781942954217
- 1942954212
- OCLC
- 952183081
- Author
- Pizer, Donald, author.
- Title
- The paintings and drawings of John Dos Passos : a collection and study / Donald Pizer, Lisa Nanney and Richard Layman.
- Publisher
- Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98) and index.
- Added Author
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970, artist.Nanney, Lisa, author.Layman, Richard, 1947- author.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 17-431