Ten Precisionist Artists: Annotated Bibliographies

by R. Scott Harnsberger

Sometimes considered to be America's first indigenous modernist art style, Precisionism, a movement principally of the 1920s and 1930s, concentrated on depicting the urban and industrial landscape, emphasizing the formal geometrical qualities of solid mass and clean lines and rendering these vistas with simplified, sharp-edged shapes and smooth, unmodulated application of pigment, void of extraneous details and impersonal in tone. This annotated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313276641
• ISBN13: 9780313276644
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"