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- Publication Name
- American Workman
- Title
- American Workman
- Subtitle
- The Life and Art of John Kane
- ISBN-10
- 0822947048
- EAN
- 9780822947042
- ISBN
- 9780822947042
- Release Date
- 09/28/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- American Workman : the Life and Art of John Kane
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, General, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 308 Pages
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American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped his development as an artist and his breakthrough success in the modern art world. A rough-and-tumble blue-collar man prone to brawling and drinking, Kane also sought out beauty in the industrial world he inhabited. This Kane paradox--brawny and tough, sensitive and creative--was at the heart of much of the public's interest in Kane as a person. The allure of the Kane saga was heightened all the more by the fact that he did not achieve renown until he was at the age at which most people are retiring from their professions. Kane's dedication to painting resulted in a fascinating body of work that has ended up in some of America's most important museums and private collections. His dramatic life story demonstrates the courage, strength, and creativity of his generation of workmen. They may be long gone, but thanks to Kane they cannot be forgotten.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822947048
ISBN-13
9780822947042
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050078783
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Workman : the Life and Art of John Kane
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, General, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
308 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd237.K16k56 2022
Reviews
"Lippincott should be applauded for the deep research in her half of the book, which focuses exclusively on Kane's art. . . . While Kane's work may still be a fixture at MoMA, maybe it's time he's broken out of that stuffy Masters of Popular Painting gallery. American Workman may provide the groundwork for doing just that." -- ARTnews, " American Workman is a long-overdue reexamination of the first self-taught American painter to be taken up by the modern art establishment. As Louise Lippincott notes, there are many parallels between our twenty-first century reality and Kane's Depression-era Pittsburgh: among them, a glaring divide between economic haves and have-nots, and an art world hungry for the next big thing. . . . This is not, however, a rags-to-riches story, but something more trenchant. Although John Kane died in poverty, he left an artistic legacy that both spoke to his time and transcended it." -- Jane Kallir, president, Kallir Research Institute, "An exhaustive biography as well as a deep critical appreciation of Kane's art, American Workman should bring new attention to this artist's remarkable work." -- Pittsburgh Magazine, "John Kane was a working man who made a living as a rail car and house painter--but this work did not define him. He was himself a study in contrasts--hard drinking, hard fighting, yet, at the same time, sensitive, contemplative, and hyper-focused. His art depicts an American workman's life with an attention to detail that reveals his worlds, real and imagined, in high definition. Kane saw beauty where others saw a tortured industrial landscape. His artistic eye saw the can-do spirit of Pittsburgh, often filtering out the gritty ugliness that other observers could not see through. Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott have achieved something quite remarkable with their insightful and balanced examination of a most extraordinary man whose talent enabled him to elevate fleeting moments of ordinary life to works of art for the ages." -- Andrew E. Masich, President & CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center, "When Andy Warhol first hit the art world, he was only the second most famous painter to come out of Pittsburgh. John Kane, steelworker and housepainter, had garnered his own headlines in the 1920s, when museums discovered his 'primitive' oils. Almost a century later, Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott are giving Kane the attention he deserves. They do a lovely job on both life and art, and the amalgam Kane forged from the two."-- Blake Gopnik, American art critic and author of Warhol, "This reassessment of the life and art of John Kane (1860-1934) sets a new standard for art scholarship. . . . Illustrations make this book a rich experience." -- Maine Antiques Digest, "John Kane was a working man who made a living as a rail car and house painter--but this work did not define him. He was himself a study in contrasts--hard drinking, hard fighting, yet, at the same time, sensitive, contemplative, and hyper-focused. His art depicts an American workman's life with an attention to detail that reveals his worlds, real and imagined, in high definition. Kane saw beauty where others saw a tortured industrial landscape. His artistic eye saw the can-do spirit of Pittsburgh, often filtering out the gritty ugliness that other observers could not see through. Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott have achieved something quite remarkable with their insightful and balanced examination of a most extraordinary man whose talent enabled him to elevate fleeting moments of ordinary life to works of art for the ages." --Andrew E. Masich, President & CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center, When Andy Warhol first hit the art world, he was only the second most famous painter to come out of Pittsburgh. John Kane, steelworker and housepainter, had garnered his own headlines in the 1920s, when museums discovered his 'primitive' oils. Almost a century later, Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott are giving Kane the attention he deserves. They do a lovely job on both life and art, and the amalgam Kane forged from the two. --Blake Gopnik, American art critic and author of Warhol, "When Andy Warhol first hit the art world, he was only the second most famous painter to come out of Pittsburgh. John Kane, steelworker and housepainter, had garnered his own headlines in the 1920s, when museums discovered his 'primitive' oils. Almost a century later, Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott are giving Kane the attention he deserves. They do a lovely job on both life and art, and the amalgam Kane forged from the two." --Blake Gopnik, American art critic and author of Warhol, " American Workman , the first new account of Kane's life and work in fity years, is gorgeous . . . King presents a thoughtful account that shuns the contemporary tactic of inventing scenes and dialogue . . . [and] Lippincott also offers bracing art-historical detective work and well-grounded speculation about Kane's motives and aims." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Table of Content
Section One THE LIFE by Maxwell King Part One : Scotland, steel and the origins of the lifelong wanderings of a man of many parts. How John Kane came to America from Scotland and began a long and extraordinarily varied working life, first in coal and coke, then in steel, railroads and building, all the while patiently honing his skills as an artist. And how his risk-taking, seeking nature took him to many parts of the country and into activities as different as boxing with professionals and patiently teaching himself the skills of a painter and an artist. Chapter 1: A Boy in Scotland Chapter 2: Coming to America Chapter 3: Making Steel Chapter 4: A Ranging and Restless Spirit Part Two : Railroads, strikes, a love affair with paint, marriage to "as pretty a lass as ever came out of Ireland," a peripatetic journey through the land, and earning some real money from art. Wherein, John Kane, grievously injured in an accident, manages to carry on as a workman, an artist, and, now, a family man. Chapter 5: Trouble Comes Chapter 6: Paint Chapter 7: The Artist as Nomad Chapter 8: And Home Again Part Three: At last, success; and, with it comes controversy and the overwhelming feeling of getting lost in all the world's attention. But John Kane, always resilient, now does some of his very best work, just as wealthy collectors and museums compete for his paintings. Chapter 9: Acclaim Chapter 10: And Controversy Chapter 11: Legacy Section Two THE ART by Louise Lippincott Part 1: Review of the Field Chapter 1: Storytellers: Sky Hooks as a John Kane word painting Chapter 2: Myth, legend, history: Subsequent critical literature Part 2: An Unconventional Career Chapter 3: Tests of virtue: Why Kane doesn't fit the modernist paradigm Chapter 4: Hero's quest: A workman's way to the fine arts Chapter 5: Comedy of errors: A culture clash, a setback, and a tiresome cloud Part 3: Self-Portraits and Landscapes Chapter 6: Mirror, mirror: John Kane's early self-portraits and artistic identity Chapter 7: Soul of a champion: Later self-portraits and industrial worker culture Chapter 8: Cinderella Story: John Kane and the Carnegie International Chapter 9: Beauty and the Beast: John Kane as a landscape painter Chapter 10: Rumpelstiltskin: John Kane's industrial subjects Notes, Bibliography
Copyright Date
2022
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-001053
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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