Contributions

  • Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. - Contributor
  • Quinn, Karen E. - Contributor
  • Furth, Leslie, 1957- - Contributor
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. - Contributor
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Bulfinch Press, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL398702M
  • ISBN-10082122588X
  • OCLC Control Number40730651
  • Library of Congress Control Number98088025
  • Goodreads398646
and 1 more
  • LibraryThing123378

Classifications

  • DDC779/.092
  • LCCTR647 .W44 1999

Description

This third and culminating volume in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' outstanding series on Edward Weston (1886-1958) examines the greatest works of Weston's career, his stylistic development, and especially the ways in which he responded to contemporary modernists. Comparative illustrations of work by Picasso, Brancusi, O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Henrietta Shore, and other artists provide a better understanding of these influences. Following an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, three sections of photographs with accompanying essays demonstrate the entire range of Weston's work: his work as a pictorialist before 1920; experimental portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from the Mexican Period; his landmark still lifes of shells and peppers; small-format portraiture and fragmentary nudes; the classic "high modernist" series of nudes and dunes from the 1930s; and his late abstract landscapes. Included are brilliant prints of Weston's most famous images, including Pepper 30, Excusado, and Palma Cuernavaca, as well as numerous unfamiliar photographs that broaden our understanding of this great photographer.

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