Handmade Holiday Cards
分类: 图书,进口原版,Arts & Photography(艺术与摄影),History & Criticism(历史与评论),
品牌: Faythe LevineMary Savig
基本信息出版社:Smithsonian Books (2012年8月7日)精装:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:1588343308条形码:9781588343307商品重量:567 gASIN:1588343308您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述Handmade Holiday Cardsshows how artists imagined the holidays through original watercolors, etchings, silk-screen prints, and drawings. Rarely seen beyond the eyes of their recipients, these cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders.Handmade Holiday Cardsoffers personal insight into the style and sentiment of artists, including how they summed up the year's events in their own lives and the world in which they lived.
The introduction by archives specialist Mary Savig explores the intersections between commercial holiday cards and the art world--how holiday cards were first marketed as "affordable art" and how selling their art to card companies often provided income for artists in lean times. She then opens up the more intimate dimensions of an artist's social network, illuminating their relationships with dealers, curators, teachers, and close friends. Captions introduce each artist, compare or contrast the holiday card to his/her body of work, and discuss the relationship to the recipient when relevant.
Handmade Holiday Cardsillustrates and contextualizes a broad range of one-of-a-kind artworks or limited edition print series by well-known artists such as Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Robert Indiana, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Robert Motherwell, Nickolas Muray, and Ad Reinhardt. It will appeal to anyone interested in greeting cards, ephemeral art, illustrated correspondence, and the history of American art.