Dark metropolis : Irving Norman's social surrealism
Dark metropolis : Irving Norman's social surrealism
/ Edited by Ray Day
- Sacramento, CA : Heyday Books , 2006
- 223 p. : illus. ; 31 cm
Introduction. Paintings of our time / Scott A. Shields -- Essays. A radical life / Patricia Junker ; Irving Norman and the human condition / Charles C. Eldredge -- Reproductions. I. The capitalist enigma ; II. The social illusion ; III. The cycle of war ; IV. The urban transformation ; V. The human predicament.
Social realism at its most vivid and vibrant. Images from an artist who witnessed a century of human struggle. Amazing glimpses of an age of change Stunning retrospective collection of a surrealist master. Not a well-known figure, Irving Norman created monumental works that depicted the world he saw and experienced throughout the decades from World War I into the 70's. There is a dark vision shaped by the wars and enormous change of his times as he saw it - war, revolution, industrialization, and the pace and crush of modern life. This collection attempts to bring Norman to a new position and appreciation among modern American masters.
English
9781597140416
Norman, Irving (1906-1989) ---Catalogs
Social problems in art---Catalogs
Social conflict in art---Catalogs
Surrealism---United States
REF 759.13 NOR
Introduction. Paintings of our time / Scott A. Shields -- Essays. A radical life / Patricia Junker ; Irving Norman and the human condition / Charles C. Eldredge -- Reproductions. I. The capitalist enigma ; II. The social illusion ; III. The cycle of war ; IV. The urban transformation ; V. The human predicament.
Social realism at its most vivid and vibrant. Images from an artist who witnessed a century of human struggle. Amazing glimpses of an age of change Stunning retrospective collection of a surrealist master. Not a well-known figure, Irving Norman created monumental works that depicted the world he saw and experienced throughout the decades from World War I into the 70's. There is a dark vision shaped by the wars and enormous change of his times as he saw it - war, revolution, industrialization, and the pace and crush of modern life. This collection attempts to bring Norman to a new position and appreciation among modern American masters.
English
9781597140416
Norman, Irving (1906-1989) ---Catalogs
Social problems in art---Catalogs
Social conflict in art---Catalogs
Surrealism---United States
REF 759.13 NOR
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