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by: Jane Kallir  
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780300089271 ISBN: 0300089279 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: March 01, 2001 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - thes best of grandma moses..great historical information... beautiful photographs... a wonderful gift for collectors of grandma moses.. Rating: - The Long - Ago Mother Of Us AllPrepared in conjunction with "a major exhibition, organized and circulated by Art Services International," Grandma Moses In The 21st Century (2001) represents an academic reassessment of the celebrated folk artist's work for audiences of the new millennium. While the two longest sections (Roger Cardinal's excellent essay, "The Sense of Time and Place," and Jane Kallir's commentary on the 87 plates) are sound, other segments underscore the wide cultural divide that continues to exist between the abstraction ... Read More Rating:  - A catalog of an elderly painter's folk artGrandma Moses In The 21st Century is a catalog of an elderly painter's folk art and provides an excellent survey of her works including an intricate examination of her working methods, her interpretive process, and her role in the context of modern art and social movements of her times, in the 1940s and 50s. The result is an excellent catalog which features important analyses of her achievements and displays her notable works in lavish, full page color. 
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