New forms
Subtitle: the avant-garde meets the American scene, 1934-1949 : selections from the University of Iowa Museum of Art
By: edited by Kathleen A. Edwards ; with essays by Erika Doss, Kathleen A. Edwards, and Joni L. Kinsey ; and catalogue entries by Emily A. Kerrigan
Contributors: University of Iowa. Museum of Art
Publisher: University of Iowa Museum of Art
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780934656009
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Modernism (Art); Study and teaching; Regionalism in art; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Avant-Garde meets the American scene, 1934-1949
Description: Essays on the development of American art and its audience; the history of the Art program at the University of Iowa; and images of art by 20th century modernists held in the University of Iowa Museum of Art collections. Includes discussion of the influence at the UI of work by Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, and Mauricio Lasanzky among others.
Notes: "This volume is published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Kathleen A. Edwards and Joni L. Kinsey for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, September 14-December 4, 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American moderns in the 1930s and 1940s : the triumph of diversity / Erika Doss; title: Modernism ascendant : the contested history of modern art at the University of Iowa / Joni L. Kinsey; title: Transitional hybrids : exploring surrealism in the Iowa collection / Kathleen A. Edwards; title: Catalogue entries / Emily A. Kerrigan. Edwin Lee Allen ; Byron Browne ; Philip Guston ; William Ashby McCly ; Jackson Pollock ; John D. Pusey ; Walter Quirt ; John Tazewell Robertson ; Mark Rothko ; Charles Seliger ; Mitchell Siporin ; Bradley Walker Tomlin ; Max Weber; title: Exhibition list.