Overview
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 wit. Distributed for the Columbus Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Columbus Museum of Art (02/10/17–05/21/17) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (06/30/17–09/03/17) Smith College Museum of Art, Northamton, MA (09/21/17–01/07/18)
Full Product Details
Author: M. Melissa Wolfe ,
Sarah Burns ,
Robert Cozzolino ,
Michael Lobel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 22.90cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 1.225kg
ISBN: 9780300223132
ISBN 10: 0300223137
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 07 March 2017
Audience:
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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 2017 Award for Excellence, Catalogue or Publication Award Category * The Association of Art Museum Curators * 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 2017 Award for Excellence, Catalogue or Publication Award Category The Association of Art Museum Curators
Author Information
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 Wolfe is curator of American art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Adam Zagorin, the artist’s son, is an investigative journalist for the Project on Government Oversight.
