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George Bellows by Joyce Carol Oates (1995, Hardcover) 
George Bellows by Joyce Carol Oates (1995, Hardcover)
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1995-11-01
Series: Writers on Art
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0880014377
ISBN-13: 9780880014373
Product ID: EPID441272
Description: Best known for his depictions of the brutal world of boxing, George Bellows is reintroduced to the public by Joyce Carol Oats in this new investigation of his work. A multi-faceted artist, his early days were spent as a Whitmanesque voye...
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Best known for his depictions of the brutal world of boxing, George Bellows is reintroduced to the public by Joyce Carol Oats in this new investigation of his work. A multi-faceted artist, his early days were spent as a Whitmanesque voyeur of the New York street scene. He later moved to Maine where he experimented with a "heroic" vision of man in nature, and in his last period produced "paradisical" work in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau. This volume is part of the Writers on Art series from Ecco Press.

Details
Publication Date:1995-11-01
Series:Writers on Art

Size
Length:69 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Though he was the most famous and most highly regarded American artist of his era, George Bellows, the intense, prolific painter of the early twentieth century, has remained as much of an enigma to his successors as to his contemporaries. Best known for his gritty, impressionistic depictions of underground boxing and the lower east side of New York, Bellows was also influenced by cultural movements and theories of art as diverse as transcendentalism and surrealism. In George Bellows: American Artist, Joyce Carol Oates explores his life and work from the perspective of a writer and admirer. Examining Bellows' art within his historical and cultural contexts, Oates sheds new light on his technical versatility and voracious imagination.

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"Her gift is for narrative, especially the flow of private experience. Yet in 'George Bellows' she never finds a way to relate what happens when she or we look at the paintings. So she falls to describing or speculating about the overt content of Bellows' pictures or their biographical linkages, trying to squeeze propellant energy from adjectives."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Kenneth Baker

"'Writers on Art,' the series to which this volume belongs, is one of the greatest ideas in publishing history....In the case of Oates, her public interest in boxing...and her restless mind and various subject matter, is also characteristic of Bellows' painting life."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Susan Salter Reynolds (02/04/1996)

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