Visual culture as history
Subtitle: American accents : masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
By: Daniell Cornell.
Contributors: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Publisher: The Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -- Exhibitions.; Painting, American -- Exhibitions.; Nationalism and art -- United States -- Exhibitions.; National characteristics in art -- Exhibitions.; Painting -- California -- San Francisco -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Arguing that a unique visual accent—comparable to a spoken one—exists in American fine arts, this exhibit catalog presents and discusses 87 works, spotlighting 24 of them in large color plates, from Joseph Wright's 1784 portrait of John Coats Browne to Georgia O'Keeffe's 1925 Petunias. The other works are pictured in large color thumbnails in the exhibit checklist, and additional color and black and white figures appear throughout the book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155) and index.
Catalog of an itinerant exhibition.