One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day folk painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars examine Moses's name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in American pop culture; address the myth of the self-taught artist; and contextualize her work alongside such contemporaries as Horace Pippin, Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Hirshfield.
- ISBN10 0847849236
- ISBN13 9780847849239
- Publish Date 14 June 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Skira Rizzoli
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780847849239