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 t...

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1. Verfasser:	Boas, Nancy
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Schlagworte:	Society of Six. Society of Six 1900-1999 Landscape painting, American > California, Northern. Landscape painting > California, Northern > 20th century. Color in art. Peinture de paysages américaine > Californie (Nord) Peinture de paysages > Californie (Nord) > 20e siècle. Couleur dans l'art. ART > Subjects & Themes > General. ART / American / General Color in art Landscape painting Landscape painting, American Northern California
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Zusammenfassung:	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. 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.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Bibliographie:	"Exhibition history": pages 210-18 Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
ISBN:	9780520919778 0520919777 058517783X 9780585177830