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Book - Object Lessons in American Art

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A rich exploration of American artworks that reframes them within current debates on race, gender, the environment, and more Object Lessons in American Art  explores a diverse gathering of Euro-American, Native American, and African American art from a range of contemporary perspectives, illustrating how innovative analysis of historical art can inform, enhance, and afford new relevance to artifacts of the American past. The book is grounded in the understanding that the meanings of objects change over time, in different contexts, and as a consequence of the ways in which they are considered. Inspired by the concept of the object lesson, the study of a material thing or group of things in juxtaposition to convey embodied and underlying ideas,  Object Lessons in American Art  examines a broad range of art from Princeton University’s venerable collections as well as contemporary works that imaginatively appropriate and reframe their subjects and style

Where Ideas Come From: Dalí’s Drawings

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The Dalí Museum will present more than 100 works on paper from the Museum’s vault in   Where Ideas Come From: Dalí’s Drawings  from May 27-Oct. 22 . Showcasing the artist’s utilization of various media, including pencil, pen, charcoal, watercolor and gouache,   Dalí’s Drawings   will highlight Dalí’s creative process throughout the many phases of his career. More than half of the artworks will be on view for the first time in 35 years and will rarely be displayed again due to their fragile nature. Through the support of donations from the community, the majority of the works featured in the exhibition were recently conserved — for the first time — in alignment with The Dalí’s mission to care for and share Dalí’s work and legacy. “Drawing is perhaps the most direct way to bring what is in the mind through the hand and into the world — a critical part of the creative process and one that Dalí was committed to throughout his life,” said Hank Hine, the Museum’s executive director. “We l

Andrew Wyeth: Home Places

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  THE BRANDYWINE   FEBRUARY 4–JULY 13, 2023 Andrew Wyeth, Swifts – First Version, 1991, watercolor on paper. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art B3122r © Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS)  Opening at the Brandywine Museum of Art on February 4, 2023,  Andrew Wyeth: Home Places  presents nearly 50 paintings and drawings of local buildings that inspired Wyeth time and again over seven decades of his career. The artworks in this exhibition are drawn exclusively from the nearly 7,000-object Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, now managed by the Brandywine. Many of these pieces have never before been exhibited, offering a first glimpse at a significant treasure trove that will shed new light on the collaborative creative process of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth, Widow’s Walk Study, 1990, watercolor and pencil on paper. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art B3144 © Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Socie

Escher – Other world

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  Kunstmuseum Den Haag 18 February 2023 to 1 October 2023  Caption: MC Escher, Air and Water I, 1938, woodcut.  Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag.  © The MC Escher Company – Baarn – Holland.  All rights reserved.  www.mcescher.com M.C. Escher, Waterfall, 1961, lithograph. Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag. © The M.C. Escher Company – Baarn – Holland. All rights reserved.  www.mcescher.com M.C. Escher Other, World, 1947, wood engraving and woodcut in black, reddish brown and green, printed from three blocks 31,8 x 26,1 cm. Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag. © The M.C. Escher Company – Baarn – Holland. All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com Step into the impossible world of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972).  That is literally possible in Escher – Other world in Kunstmuseum Den Haag.  In this exhibition you will experience Escher's work like never before.  His famous prints, in which optical illusions, impossible architecture, reflection and nature are central, are combi

Latest Art History News

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  Art History News 1 day ago Dürer. Munch. Miró. The Great Masters of Printmaking The ALBERTINA27.01. 2023 – 14.05. 2023 The ALBERTINA presents a retrospective of the history of printmaking over a period of six centuries, from Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiki Smith and Damien Hirst. The two exhibitions planned as a pas de deux - at both ALBERTINA locations - span from works of the late Middle Ages to the prints of contemporary art. The two exhibitions are joined by a third, as it were, dedicated solely to the most important printmaker of the 20th century: Picasso. The first exhibit, 'Dürer. Munch. Miró - The Great Masters of Printmakin...  read more Art History News 1 day ago Picasso On the 50th Anniversary of his Death *ALBERTINA * *17 March – 18 June 2023* Exactly half a century after his passing, the ALBERTINA Museum is commemorating the life and works of Pablo Picasso, that greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century—a pioneer of i