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PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691115540
ISBN-139780691115542
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Book TitleFrederic Remington : the Color of Night
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicIndividual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorNancy Anderson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight54.1 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width9.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-154297
Reviews"This volume has by far the highest production values of any publication on Frederic Remington, and offers fresh insights from novel approaches to art history, biography and cultural studies. . . . Remington's work is rich enough to allow every generation to see him anew. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night helps us to do just that." --Christopher Capozzola, The Art Book, "This new and imaginative look at Remington's night pictures secures the artist's place in the history of American art, rather than exclusively in the history of western American art, and promises to attract a large audience from aficionados of the West to those interested in a cultural history of early-twentieth-century America. Remington's works are well known by most museum goers and beloved by a segment of an even wider public. Clearly written throughout, this book will put him literally in a new light for these and new audiences. By connecting Remington's pictorially and psychologically darkest pictures to Whistler's nocturnes; to Crane, Conrad, and Hemingway; and to the new technologies of electric light and flash photography, Anderson, Nemerov, and Sharpe bring Remington into the twentieth century and give him the place he deserves in a modern world." --Carol Clark, Amherst College, This handsome volume . . . is a carefully researched introduction to the development of night paintings and their role as a bridge to modern art. The perceptive essays in this beautifully illustrated work demonstrate how energetically imaginative, experimental, and modern Remington became when he sought to portray the color of night., "This handsome volume . . . is a carefully researched introduction to the development of night paintings and their role as a bridge to modern art. The perceptive essays in this beautifully illustrated work demonstrate how energetically imaginative, experimental, and modern Remington became when he sought to portray the color of night." -- Choice, This volume has by far the highest production values of any publication on Frederic Remington, and offers fresh insights from novel approaches to art history, biography and cultural studies. . . . Remington's work is rich enough to allow every generation to see him anew. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night helps us to do just that., "This volume has by far the highest production values of any publication on Frederic Remington, and offers fresh insights from novel approaches to art history, biography and cultural studies. . . . Remington's work is rich enough to allow every generation to see him anew. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night helps us to do just that." ---Christopher Capozzola, The Art Book, This volume has by far the highest production values of any publication on Frederic Remington, and offers fresh insights from novel approaches to art history, biography and cultural studies. . . . Remington's work is rich enough to allow every generation to see him anew. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night helps us to do just that. ---Christopher Capozzola, The Art Book
Table Of ContentDirector's Foreward vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction byNancy K. Anderson10 What's Out There? Frederick Remington's Art of Darkness byWilliam C. Sharpe16 Dark Disquiet: Remington's Late Nocturnes byNancy K. Anderson52 Burning Daylight: Remington, Electricity, and Flash PhotographyAlexander Nemerov76 The Nocturnes: A Catalogue 96 Appendix: Notes on Conservation byRoss Merrill, Thomas J. Branchick, Perry Huston, Norman E. Muller, Robert G. Proctor, Jr., and Jill Whitten196 Lenders to the Exhibition 218 Select Bibliography 219 Index 223
SynopsisIn the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night., In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier. In these deeply personal works, Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly, his images are filled with color and light--moonlight, firelight, candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night , accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience, and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart of darkness. As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE http: //www.nga.gov/ National Gallery of Art, Washington April 13 - July 13, 2003 http: //www.gilcrease.org/ The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma August 10 - November 9, 2003 http: //www.denverartmuseum.org/ Denver Art Museum December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004, In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier. In these deeply personal works, Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly, his images are filled with color and light--moonlight, firelight, candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night , accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience, and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart of darkness. As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE http://www.nga.gov/ National Gallery of Art, Washington April 13 - July 13, 2003 http://www.gilcrease.org/ The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma August 10 - November 9, 2003 http://www.denverartmuseum.org/ Denver Art Museum December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004, Published in association with the National Gallery of Art to accompany a traveling exhibition of Frederic Remington's nocturnes, this richly illustrated volume is the first to present all 70 of these paintings that took as their subject the color of night. 70 color plates. 30 halftones.
LC Classification NumberND237.R36
