Synopses & Reviews
in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove took up painting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings, collages, pastels, and charcoal drawings.Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, Dove was touted for more than three decades by photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, one whose work was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly industrialized America. Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in his circle, including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and re-examine Dove in the context of early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color plates of all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely illustrated with black-and-white images not included in the exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonné, this book is the largest and most comprehensive publication to date on Dove's work.Copublished with the Addison Gallery of American Art in association with the Phillips Collection
Review
andldquo;DeLue presents a Dove just waiting to be revisited, a Dove so much more interesting and beguiling than previously assumed. This is a Dove who engages the most vernacular thingsandmdash;maps, letters, numbers, weather, metal, natural and manmade sounds, hair, elemental shapesandmdash;to arrive at a refreshingly prosaic and often literal sense of connectedness. This is the boldest, the most illuminating, the most persuasive, and frankly the most interesting study of pre-1945 American modernism I have ever read.andrdquo;
Review
andldquo;Through its focus on a single artist, the American modernist painter Arthur Dove, DeLueandrsquo;s book increasingly widens its scope to take in everything from weather science to jazz improvisation, from the study of Greggandrsquo;s shorthand to the structure of the radium atom. DeLue follows where Doveandrsquo;s work and life lead, and the results are no less dazzling than the paintings that appear in full-color in this splendid book.andrdquo;
Synopsis
Copublished with the Addison Gallery of American Art in association with the Phillips Collection
Synopsis
The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974.
Synopsis
This book takes on the American artist Arthur Doveand#8217;s life in the studio, working away with the radio crackling, records playing, thermometers and barometers on the wall spiking and plunging, clocks ticking, telephones ringing. DeLue is particularly interested in Doveand#8217;s later workand#151;the art he produced starting in the 1920sand#151;when he became fascinated with scientific and technological advances that were becoming commonplace. For example, sound technology was rapidly evolving in the shape of commercial radio broadcasting, talkies, records, and music itself. Dove was obsessed with the science, the materiality, of sound, and he used it as a tool in developing many paintings.
Synopsis
Arthur Dove, often credited as Americaandrsquo;s first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature. Challenging earlier accounts that view him as simply a landscape painter,
Arthur Dove: Always Connect reveals for the first time the artistandrsquo;s intense engagement with language, the nature of social interaction, and scientific and technological advances.
Rachael Z. DeLue rejects the traditional assumption that Dove can only be understood in terms of his nature paintings and association with photographer and gallery director Alfred Stieglitz and his circle. Instead, she uncovers deep and complex connections between Doveandrsquo;s work and his world, including avant-garde literature, popular music, machine culture, meteorology, mathematics, aviation, and World War II, just to name a few. Arthur Dove also offers the first sustained account of Doveandrsquo;s Dadaesque multimedia projects and the first explorations of his animal imagery and the role of humor in his art. Beautifully illustrated with works from all periods of Doveandrsquo;s career, this book presents an unprecedented vision of one of Americaandrsquo;s most innovative and captivating artistsandmdash;and reimagines how the story of modern art in the United States might be told.
About the Author
Rachael Z. DeLue is associate professor of art history and archaeology at Princeton University. She is the author of
George Inness and the Science of Landscape, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of
Landscape Theory.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Circles
2and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Weather
3and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Sound
4and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Things
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index