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)
- ISBN10 0300223137
- ISBN13 9780300223132
- Publish Date 7 March 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300223132