false 222443 0 0 391376 0520241002 9780520241008 3 <![CDATA[Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397172m/391376.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397172s/391376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391376.Icons_of_Grief_Val_Lewton_s_Home_Front_Pictures 3.60 5 The Curse of the Cat People, The Ghost Ship, I Walked with a Zombie, and Bedlam. These ghosts, outcasts, and other apparitions of sorrow crystallize the anxiety and grief experienced by Americans during the war, emotions decidedly at odds with the official insistence on courage, patriotism, and optimism. In an evocative meditation on Lewton's use of these "icons of grief," Nemerov demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.
Nemerov's rich study draws from Lewton's letters, novels, and scripts and from a wealth of historical material to shed light on both the visual and literary aspects of the filmmaker's work. Lavishly illustrated with more than fifty photographs, including many rare film stills, Icons of Grief recasts Lewton's horror films as suggestive commentaries on a troubled and hidden side of America during World War II.]]> 222443 4.00 8 3 2005 391375 0520224981 9780520224988 0 <![CDATA[The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397172m/391375.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397172s/391375.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391375.The_Body_of_Raphaelle_Peale_Still_Life_and_Selfhood_1812_1824 4.67 3 The Body of Raphaelle Peale focuses on not just Raphaelle's paintings but also the visual and intellectual culture of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia, to which these works intimately relate. More broadly, the book presents a reading of romanticism in the American visual arts. Above all, it is an argument about selfhood in Raphaelle's era. Raphaelle's focus--in paintings both playful and morbid--was the pleasures and horrors of being a mere body, of being less than a self.
Nemerov's primary source of evidence in this study is Raphaelle's art itself. After considering its theoretical and historical implications, he returns to the images, deftly guiding us to a fresh understanding of these remarkable paintings. Nemerov's formal analysis is infused with a sophisticated awareness of interdisciplinary issues, and he gracefully balances the formal, the theoretical, and the historical throughout his narrative. This beautifully illustrated study is sure to stimulate renewed appreciation of an exceptional American artist.]]> 222443 4.00 8 3 2001 1260193 0894682997 9780894682995 0 <![CDATA[Frederic Remington: The Color of Night]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1260193.Frederic_Remington_The_Color_of_Night 0.0 0 In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier.

In these deeply personal works, Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly, his images are filled with color and light--moonlight, firelight, candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work.

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience, and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart of darkness.

As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

National Gallery of Art, Washington
April 13 - July 13, 2003

The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
August 10 - November 9, 2003

Denver Art Museum
December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004

]]> 101268 4.28 60 1 222443 4.00 8 3 587733 4.00 1 0 2003 391374 0300055668 9780300055665 0 <![CDATA[Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397171m/391374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174397171s/391374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391374.Frederic_Remington_and_Turn_of_the_Century_America 0.0 0 222443 4.00 8 3 1995 4338346 0520240995 9780520240995 0 <![CDATA[Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4338346.Icons_of_Grief_Val_Lewton_s_Home_Front_Pictures 0.0 0 The Curse of the Cat People, The Ghost Ship, I Walked with a Zombie, and Bedlam. These ghosts, outcasts, and other apparitions of sorrow crystallize the anxiety and grief experienced by Americans during the war, emotions decidedly at odds with the official insistence on courage, patriotism, and optimism. In an evocative meditation on Lewton's use of these "icons of grief," Nemerov demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.
Nemerov's rich study draws from Lewton's letters, novels, and scripts and from a wealth of historical material to shed light on both the visual and literary aspects of the filmmaker's work. Lavishly illustrated with more than fifty photographs, including many rare film stills, Icons of Grief recasts Lewton's horror films as suggestive commentaries on a troubled and hidden side of America during World War II.]]> 222443 4.00 8 3 2005