Книга: Lens on American Art (Wilmerding John); Rizzoli, 2020

This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art, sculpture, and photography from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. Accompanying an exhibition at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the book includes eighty works by illustrious artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel. Though we know eyeglasses are for looking through, we often overlook their role in portraits and figure images. This survey looks at their appearance and uses in American art, from 1784 when Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal, to the present day. Spectacles in artwork served as emblems of literacy, fashion, and self-identity;
old age and wisdom;
inner or psychological vision;
and sometimes just contemplation. Contemporary works include bespectacled self-portraits by Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring;
and eyeglasses as pure design by Alex Katz and Wayne Thiebaud.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-8478-6476-8
Автор(ы)	Wilmerding John
Автор	Wilmerding J.
Авторы	Wilmerding J.
Год издания	2020
Год публикации	2020
Издатель	Rizzoli
Кол-во страниц	184
Количество страниц	176
Переплет	Твёрдый
Переплёт	Твёрдый
Формат	210x260
Язык издания	Английский
Язык	Английский