Cecile Whiting
Biographic Data
| ID | 3788574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecile Whiting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecile |
| FAMILY NAME | Whiting |
| SIGNATURE | WHITING C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ben Shahn
Between 1957 and 1966 Ben Shahn regularly tackled the dangers of nuclear fallout in drawings, paintings, and posters. In devoting his art to the cause of nuclear disarmament, Shahn eschewed the particular for what he called “the universal.” Dispensing with identifying details of physiognomy, Shahn portrayed generalized male types, as physical victims of war and as psychologically traumatized by anxiety about the arms race. In his quest for the un…
The Sublime and the Banal in Postwar Photography of the American West
Until the mid-twentieth century, American photographs cast the West as a place apart, distinguished from the rest of the United States by its empty sweep of frontier territory and its stupendous heights of untouched grandeur. Ansel Adams exercised a virtual monopoly over sublime views of the pristine landscape in the modern era. However, in 1960 Adams and Nancy Newhall co-edited This is the American Earth, published by the Sierra Club, warning th…
David Hockney
It’s Only a Paper Moon”
Decorating with Stettheimer and the Boys
"A Taste for Pop
BOOKA Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer CultureCécile Whiting https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17653Copy When Pop art paintings depicted Campbell's soup cans or comic-book scenes of teen romance, did they stoop to the level of their mundane sources, or did they instead transmogrify the detritus of consumer culture into high art? In this study, Cécile Whiting declares the issue fundamentall…
Borrowed Spots
Antifascism in American Art
Antifascism in American Art
Antifascism in American Art
Journal Article Antifascism in American Art. By Cécile Whiting. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv + 238 pp. $32.50.) Get access Shelley Armitage Shelley Armitage West Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 345–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078753 Published: 01 June 1990
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Antifascism in American Art
Antifascism in American Art
Journal Article Antifascism in American Art. By Cécile Whiting. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv + 238 pp. $32.50.) Get access Shelley Armitage Shelley Armitage West Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 345–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078753 Published: 01 June 1990
Antifascism in American Art
Borrowed Spots
"A Taste for Pop
BOOKA Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer CultureCécile Whiting https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17653Copy When Pop art paintings depicted Campbell's soup cans or comic-book scenes of teen romance, did they stoop to the level of their mundane sources, or did they instead transmogrify the detritus of consumer culture into high art? In this study, Cécile Whiting declares the issue fundamentall…
Decorating with Stettheimer and the Boys
It’s Only a Paper Moon”
David Hockney
The Sublime and the Banal in Postwar Photography of the American West
Until the mid-twentieth century, American photographs cast the West as a place apart, distinguished from the rest of the United States by its empty sweep of frontier territory and its stupendous heights of untouched grandeur. Ansel Adams exercised a virtual monopoly over sublime views of the pristine landscape in the modern era. However, in 1960 Adams and Nancy Newhall co-edited This is the American Earth, published by the Sierra Club, warning th…
Ben Shahn
Between 1957 and 1966 Ben Shahn regularly tackled the dangers of nuclear fallout in drawings, paintings, and posters. In devoting his art to the cause of nuclear disarmament, Shahn eschewed the particular for what he called “the universal.” Dispensing with identifying details of physiognomy, Shahn portrayed generalized male types, as physical victims of war and as psychologically traumatized by anxiety about the arms race. In his quest for the un…
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