American Epics
By Austen Barron Bailly
Contributions by Margaret C. Conrads, Sarah N. Chasse, Greil Marcus and John Herron
By Austen Barron Bailly
Contributions by Margaret C. Conrads, Sarah N. Chasse, Greil Marcus and John Herron
Category: Art
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$60.00
May 12, 2015 | ISBN 9783791354224
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Praise
Everything in the fluid, vivid murals that made [Thomas Hart Benton] famous seems to be pulsing or coursing. His pictures were, in a sense, motion pictures, which may be why, in 1937, Life magazine commissioned him to go to Hollywood to create a “movie mural” that would bring its readers closer to the heart of the still-newish mystery of how films were created…
The eye for caught-on-the-fly humanity he brought to that assignment, including the wonderfully swift incidental sketches he made on Life’s dime — a chorine applying makeup, a posturally tortured screenwriter working something through, a story conference in a diner booth — forms the heart of this catalogue raisonné of his Hollywood-influenced work. With copious reproductions and essays by a dozen contributors and the editor, Austen Barron Bailly, “American Epics” is an appealing combination of coffee-table art book and dinner-table argument. Its approach is exploratory and reiterative rather than chronological…
Mark Harris, New York Times, May 29, 2015
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