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Art can help / Robert Adams.
Author
Adams, Robert, 1937-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2017]
Description
88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
BH39 .A27 2017
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Philosophy
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Essays
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A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society. In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) offers over two-dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that "encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence." Following an introduction, the book begins with two short essays on the works of the American painter Edward Hopper, an artist venerated by Adams. The rest of this compilation contains essays-more than half of which have never before been published-that contemplate one work or a small group of works by an individual artist. Many of the objects discussed are by noted photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Emmet Gowin, Dorothea Lange, Abelardo Morell, Edward Ranney, Judith Joy Ross, John Szarkowski, and Garry Winogrand. Several essays beckon the words of literary figures, including Virginia Woolf and Czeslaw Milosz. Adams's voice is at once intimate and accessible, and is imbued with the accumulated wisdom of a long career devoted to making and viewing art. This eloquent and moving book champions art that fights against disillusionment and despair.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Edward Hopper
Richard Rothman
Julia Margaret Cameron and Abelardo Morell
Frank Gohlke
Wayne Gudmundson
Ken Abbott
Edward Ranney
Leo Rubinfien
Eric Paddock
Terri Weifenbach
William Wylie
Nicholas Nixon
Garry Winogrand
Mark Ruwedel
Judith Joy Ross
Cuny Janssen
Dorothea Lange
Mitch Epstein
Emmet Gowin
David T. Hanson
John Szarkowski
William S. Sutton
Eugene Buechel
Edward S. Curtis
Anthony Hernandez
Robert Benjamin
Mary Peck
Dorothea Lange.
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ISBN
9780300229240 ((hardcover))
0300229240 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017938489
OCLC
1002122778
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