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Author Tsujimoto, Karen.

Title Images of America : Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography / Karen Tsujimoto
Published Seattle : Published for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by University of Washington Press, 1982
1982

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Description 248 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents America, 1900-1920 : the formative years in industry and art -- Precisionism : a definition -- European influences and parallels -- Ambivalence about urbanization -- Charles Sheeler : precisionist painter and modern photographer -- American photography : parallels to precisionism -- Formative influences on American photography -- The California group -- Photography in the thirties -- Changes in the times
Summary " ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisioniwsm, was emerging."--Page 4 of cover
Notes Catalogue of an Exhibition Scheduled to Be Held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Other Institutions, Sept. 9, 1982-oct. 9, 1983
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 219-230
Subject San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- Exhibitions.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Art and photography.
Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Precisionism -- United States -- Exhibitions.
SUBJECT United States -- In art http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100182 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655
United States -- In art -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100183
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Exhibition catalogs.
Author San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
LC no. 82002586
ISBN 0295959312