SOCIETY OF 6

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-21055-4
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 305 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six—Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest—created a color-centered modernist idiom that shocked establishment tastes but remains the most advanced painting of its era in Northern California. Nancy Boas's well-informed and sumptuously illustrated chronicle recognizes the importance of these six painters in the history of American Post-Impressionism.

The Six found themselves in the position of an avant garde not because they set out to reject conventionality, but because they aspired to create their own indigenous modernism. While the artists were considered outsiders in their time, their work is now recognized as part of the vital and enduring lineage of American art. Depression hardship ended the Six's ascendancy, but their painterliness, use of color, and deep alliance with the land and the light became a beacon for postwar Northern California modern painters such as Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. Combining biography and critical analysis, Nancy Boas offers a fitting tribute to the lives and exhilarating painting of the Society of Six.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boas, Nancy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Eldredge, Charles C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Impressionismus, Post-Impressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Charles C. EldredgeIntroductionOne: The BackgroundWithin the Closed CircleA City’s EvolutionDevastation and ReconstructionTwo: BeginningsSelden Connor GileAugust Francois GayMaurice LoganLouis Bassi SiegriestBernard von EichmannWilliam Henry ClappThree: At the FairThe Meaning of the Fair The Art at the FairAfter the FairA New WorldFour: Coming Together, 1917-1923The Chow HouseThe Six at WorkNew Painting IdeasThe Six SeparatelyThe ManifestoFive: The Exhibition Years, 1923-1928Modernism in the Bay AreaWilliam Clapp at the Oakland Art GalleryThe Society’s Six Annual ShowsSix: Color Ascendant, 1919-1929Bernard von EichmanLouis SiegriestMaurice LoganSelden GileWilliam ClappAugust Gay in MontereySeven: The Depression Years, 1930-1939The ContextSelden Gile and the Group’s DispersalLouis SiegriestMaurice LoganBernard von EichmanWilliam ClappAugust GayThe Golden Gate International ExpositionEight: The Forties and BeyondSelden GileMaurice LoganLouis SiegriestConclusionNotesList of IllustrationsBibliographyExhibition History and ReviewsChronologiesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Boas is Adjunct Curator of American Paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Charles Eldredge is Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas.