Contemporary American Realism
Hardback exhibition book on American realism. By Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. First edition, 255 pages.
"In the 1970s realism became firmly established not only as a viable creative mode, but even as an avant-garde, in which some of the most interesting artists working today have joined. This book, the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon, presents more than one hundred artists including Philip Pearlstein, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Estes, William Bailey, and Duane Hanson, highlighting the diverse manifestations of realism across painting and sculpture."
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Hardback exhibition book on American realism. By Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. First edition, 255 pages.
"In the 1970s realism became firmly established not only as a viable creative mode, but even as an avant-garde, in which some of the most interesting artists working today have joined. This book, the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon, presents more than one hundred artists including Philip Pearlstein, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Estes, William Bailey, and Duane Hanson, highlighting the diverse manifestations of realism across painting and sculpture."
