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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
595 kr
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American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane’s life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped his development as an artist and his breakthrough success in the modern art world. A rough-and-tumble blue-collar man prone to brawling and drinking, Kane also sought out beauty in the industrial world he inhabited. This Kane paradox—brawny and tough, sensitive and creative—was at the heart of much of the public’s interest in Kane as a person. The allure of the Kane saga was heightened all the more by the fact that he did not achieve renown until he was at the age at which most people are retiring from their professions. Kane’s dedication to painting resulted in a fascinating body of work that has ended up in some of America’s most important museums and private collections. His dramatic life story demonstrates the courage, strength, and creativity of his generation of workmen. They may be long gone, but thanks to Kane they cannot be forgotten.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
343 kr
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American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane’s life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped his development as an artist and his breakthrough success in the modern art world. A rough-and-tumble blue-collar man prone to brawling and drinking, Kane also sought out beauty in the industrial world he inhabited. This Kane paradox—brawny and tough, sensitive and creative—was at the heart of much of the public’s interest in Kane as a person. The allure of the Kane saga was heightened all the more by the fact that he did not achieve renown until he was at the age at which most people are retiring from their professions. Kane’s dedication to painting resulted in a fascinating body of work that has ended up in some of America’s most important museums and private collections. His dramatic life story demonstrates the courage, strength, and creativity of his generation of workmen. They may be long gone, but thanks to Kane they cannot be forgotten.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
260 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
765 kr
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Engelska, 20262 705 kr
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Aaron Harry Gorson painted powerful and dramatic night scenes of Pittsburghs steel mills in the early 1900s. A pioneer industrial landscape artist, Gorson was partial to the nighttime beauty of industrial Pittsburgh and the magic of the glowing streams of molten iron and steel flowing from the blast furnaces and open hearths and their effects on river waters and night skies. He painted dozens of powerful nocturnes featuring the vast Jones and Laughlin mills located on both sides of the Monongahela River.Gorson came to Philadelphia from Lithuania in 1890 at the age of eighteen and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then in Paris. He returned from Paris to Pittsburgh where he lived and painted until the early 1920s. Fire in the Night Sky is a celebration of Gorsons life work and the first complete biography of the artist. Author Maxwell Perkins King sets thirty-nine Gorson paintings within the epic story of place and time: the development of the Pittsburgh steel industry and how the industrial and technological achievements of that era changed Pittsburgh and the world. To show Gorsons full range and establish his place in American art, King includes daytime river scenes and paintings from his later career in New York City. Gorsons paintings of the mills were highly prized by collectors during the last thirty years of his life. He is remembered today for his achievements in the genre of urban landscape art. Gorson is widely exhibited in major American art museums, including the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and National Academy of Design, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and held in numerous private collections.