Grant Wood's secrets
(Book)
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Published
Newark : University of Delware Press, 2020.
Status
Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Wood, G.
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Published
Newark : University of Delware Press, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxi, 328 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-315) and index.
Description
Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood's iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood's Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood's abortive autobiography "Return from Bohemia" for the first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist's own recollections into interpretations of his art. As Wood dressed in overalls and boasted about his beloved Midwest, he consciously engaged in regionalist strategies, performing a farmer masquerade of sorts. In doing so, he also posed as conventionally masculine, hiding his homosexuality from his rural community. Thus, he came to experience himself as a double man. This book conveys the very real threats under which Wood lived and pays tribute to his resourceful responses, which were often duplicitous and have baffled art historians who typically take them at face value.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Taylor, S. (2020). Grant Wood's secrets . University of Delware Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Sue, 1949-. 2020. Grant Wood's Secrets. University of Delware Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Sue, 1949-. Grant Wood's Secrets University of Delware Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Sue. Grant Wood's Secrets University of Delware Press, 2020.
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