Art can help / Robert Adams.
By: Adams, Robert [author.]
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021Description: 92 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0047831495ISBN: 9780300260243 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Art and society | Art and Design | The arts: general issues | Photography & photographs | Philosophy: aestheticsDDC classification: 701.03 LOC classification: N72.S6Summary: A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society 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 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 texts-more than half of which have never before been published-that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures 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 summon 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.Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
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| 701 TOL What is art? / | 701 TUI Speculative art histories : analysis at the limits / | 701 VAL Experimental psychology of beauty | 701.03 ADA Art can help / | 701.03 APE War Culture and the Contest of Images / | 701.03 DAV Diagrams of power : visualizing, mapping, and performing resistance / | 701.03 JOH The everyday / |
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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 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 texts--more than half of which have never before been published--that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures 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 summon 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.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
Originally published: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society 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 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 texts-more than half of which have never before been published-that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist. The pictures 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 summon 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.Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 9)
- Edward Hopper (p. 12)
- Edward Hopper (p. 14)
- Richard Rothman (p. 18)
- Julia Margaret Cameron and Abelardo Morell (p. 20)
- Frank Gohlke (p. 24)
- Wayne Gudmundson (p. 26)
- Ken Abbott (p. 30)
- Edward Ranney (p. 32)
- Leo Rubinfien (p. 34)
- Eric Paddock (p. 36)
- Terri Weifenbach (p. 38)
- William Wylie (p. 40)
- Nicholas Nixon (p. 43)
- Garry Winogrand (p. 46)
- Mark Ruwedel (p. 48)
- Judith Joy Ross (p. 50)
- Cuny Janssen (p. 54)
- Dorothea Lange (p. 56)
- Mitch Epstein (p. 58)
- Emmet Gowin (p. 60)
- David T. Hanson (p. 62)
- John Szarkowski (p. 64)
- William S. Sutton (p. 66)
- Eugene Buechel (p. 68)
- Edward S. Curtis (p. 72)
- Anthony Hernandez (p. 74)
- Robert Benjamin (p. 77)
- Mary Peck (p. 80)
- Dorothea Lange (p. 82)
- Afterword (p. 84)
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