Leslie Umberger Randall R. Griffey.
Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work.
Princeton University Press
2025,
cm.24x28,
pp.272, illustrato a colori.
legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori.
A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent émigré from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. “Grandma Moses,” as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training. Drawing on Moses’s reflection on her own life as “a good day’s work,” the book charts
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9780691272412
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