Object lessons in American art
Karl Kusserow (Editor), Horace D. Ballard (Contributor), Kirsten Pai Buick (Contributor), Ellery Foutch (Contributor), Rebecca Zorach (Contributor), Jeffrey Richmond-Moll (Contributor), Princeton University Art Museum (Organizer), Georgia Museum of Art (Host institution), Florence Griswold Museum (Host institution), Speed Art Museum (Host institution)
"Object Lessons in American Art explores a diverse gathering of Euro-American, Native American, and African American art from a range of contemporary perspectives, illustrating how innovative analysis of historical art can inform, enhance, and afford new relevance to artifacts of the American past. The book is grounded in the understanding that the meanings of objects change over time, in different contexts, and as a consequence of the ways in which they are considered. Inspired by the concept of the object lesson, the study of a material thing or group of things in juxtaposition to convey embodied and underlying ideas, Object Lessons in American Art examines a broad range of art from Princeton University's venerable collections as well as contemporary works that imaginatively appropriate and reframe their subjects and style, situating them within current social, cultural, and artistic debates on race, gender, the environment, and more."-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2023
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 2023