Uncommon Ground
Grant Wood and Russell Lee's Divergent View of Iowa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21290981 |
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| Authors | James R Swensen (0000-0003-4808-4744, Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of Iowa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-4827 • E-ISSN: 2473-9006 |
| Publisher | The University of Iowa (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17077/0003-4827.33694 |
| OpenAlex | W4391153219 |
| Language | EN |
JAMES R. SWENSEN examines how photographer Russell Lee's work in Depression-era Iowa drew inspiration from and directly challenged the most prominent Iowa artist of the era, Grant Wood. In a dramatic catalog of photographs captured in December of 1936, Lee's unflinching depiction of the trials of rural life starkly contrasted Wood's bucolic Regionalist paintings
Archaeology · Art History and Market Analysis · History · Medicine · Photographic and Visual Arts · Photography and Visual Culture · Gerontology
| Highly cited | No |
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