Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Overview
Works: | 364 works in 630 publications in 1 language and 12,813 library holdings |
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Genres: | Exhibition catalogs Catalogs Biography Portraits Illustrated works History Criticism, interpretation, etc Art |
Roles: | Other, his, Editor, Organizer of meeting, Publisher |
Classifications: | ND237.H7, 759.13 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Bowdoin College
- Old master drawings at Bowdoin College by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Colonial and Federal portraits at Bowdoin College by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Handbook of the collections by Bowdoin College( Book )
- The Bowdoin sculpture of St. John Nepomuk by Zdeňka Volavková-Skořepová( Book )
- Collecting for a college : gifts from David P. Becker by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Nineteenth century American paintings at Bowdoin College : [catalog] by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Ancient art in Bowdoin College by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Pointed pairings : the valuing of art, April 5-June 9, 2002 by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Ancient Art in Bowdoin College : a Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren and Other Collections by Kevin Herbert( )
- Recent acquisitions, 1961-1968 by Bowdoin College( Book )
- All Maine Biennial '79 : [exhibition] by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Winslow Homer's work in black and white : selected works from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Catalogue of the marbles, gems, bronzes, and coins of the Warren Collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Descriptive catalogue of the Bowdoin College art collections by Bowdoin College( Book )
- John Sloan, 1871-1951 by F. A Den Broeder( Book )
- An illustrated handbook of the Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts in the Walker Art Building by Bowdoin College( Book )
- James Bowdoin III : pursuing style in the age of independence by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Descriptive catalogue of the Bowdoin College art collections by Bowdoin College( Book )
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art newsletter by Bowdoin College( )
- Why draw? : 500 years of drawings and watercolors at Bowdoin College by Bowdoin College( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Bowdoin College
Eliot Porter by
Eliot Porter(
Book
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2 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Language of the print; a selection from the Donald H. Karshan Collection by
Bowdoin College(
Book
)
5 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a portrait if I say so : identity in American art, 1912 to today by
Anne Collins Goodyear(
Book
)
3 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished - 1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present - the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg - a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--This book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal"--Publisher's website
3 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished - 1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present - the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg - a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--This book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal"--Publisher's website
From studio to studiolo : Florentine draftsmanship under the first Medici grand dukes by
Larry J Feinberg(
Book
)
4 editions published in 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marguerite Zorach : the early years, 1908-1920 by
Marguerite Zorach(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Night vision : nocturnes in American art, 1860-1960 by
Joachim Homann(
Book
)
5 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of modern art. This...book investigates how leading American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions responded in a range of media--including paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs--to the unique challenges of picturing the night. Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques, artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the darkness was experienced as liberating, both on an aesthetic and personal level--allowing artists to become invisible, turn inward, and express personal truths in unique and poetic ways. Night Vision expands the conversation on American art and the rise of modernism, as it demonstrates how the theme of the night inspired artists who sought to leave behind established styles and traditions to better reflect the broader societal and technological shifts as well as a new understanding of the value of art as personal expression." -- Publisher's description
5 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of modern art. This...book investigates how leading American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions responded in a range of media--including paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs--to the unique challenges of picturing the night. Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques, artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the darkness was experienced as liberating, both on an aesthetic and personal level--allowing artists to become invisible, turn inward, and express personal truths in unique and poetic ways. Night Vision expands the conversation on American art and the rise of modernism, as it demonstrates how the theme of the night inspired artists who sought to leave behind established styles and traditions to better reflect the broader societal and technological shifts as well as a new understanding of the value of art as personal expression." -- Publisher's description
Edward Hopper's Maine by
Kevin Salatino(
Book
)
5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of the lyrical paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints that Hopper produced whilst staying in Maine over nine summers between 1914 and 1929, including his iconic lighthouses and the 32 plein-air studies painted on Monhegan island
5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of the lyrical paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints that Hopper produced whilst staying in Maine over nine summers between 1914 and 1929, including his iconic lighthouses and the 32 plein-air studies painted on Monhegan island
Ancient art in Bowdoin College by
Bowdoin College(
Book
)
4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Past futures : science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas by
Sarah J Montross(
Book
)
5 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects. Past Futures showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian Hydrospatial City envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (1924–); and Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian
5 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects. Past Futures showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian Hydrospatial City envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (1924–); and Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian
Rockwell Kent : the early years : [Exhibition] Bowdoin College, Museum of Art, 1969 by
Rockwell Kent(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Medals and plaquettes from the Molinari collection at Bowdoin College by
Bowdoin College(
Book
)
5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The ivory mirror : the art of mortality in Renaissance Europe by
Stephen Perkinson(
Book
)
8 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid themes run riot in the remarkable array of artworks featured in The Ivory Mirror. Nearly 200 illustrated artworks--from ivory prayer beads to gem-encrusted jewelry to exquisitely carved small sculptures--present us with an aspect of this era that is at once darker and more familiar than we might have expected"--
8 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid themes run riot in the remarkable array of artworks featured in The Ivory Mirror. Nearly 200 illustrated artworks--from ivory prayer beads to gem-encrusted jewelry to exquisitely carved small sculptures--present us with an aspect of this era that is at once darker and more familiar than we might have expected"--
The portrayal of the Negro in American painting; [exhibition] the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. [Catalogue by
Bowdoin College(
Book
)
5 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The culture of violence : exhibition(
Book
)
6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gregory Green builds homemade book and suitcase bombs, Leon Golub paints monumentally trenchant street scenes, Richard Misrach shoots color photographs of Playboy magazines used for target practice, and Sue Williams sculpts a heartbreakingly abused woman in fetal position. The Culture of Violence presents a broad, multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as manifested in the media, in the lives of children and their families, and the work of these and other artists, including Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, and Lucinda Devlin. Organized around thematic categories that cut across class and gender and range from political to personal expressions of violence, including terrorism and hate crimes, government-sanctioned execution, youth and gang violence, street crime, and domestic violence, The Culture of Violence includes a conversation on violence and culture in medieval epics and contemporary media, and a proscriptive essay on coping with family violence
6 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gregory Green builds homemade book and suitcase bombs, Leon Golub paints monumentally trenchant street scenes, Richard Misrach shoots color photographs of Playboy magazines used for target practice, and Sue Williams sculpts a heartbreakingly abused woman in fetal position. The Culture of Violence presents a broad, multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as manifested in the media, in the lives of children and their families, and the work of these and other artists, including Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, and Lucinda Devlin. Organized around thematic categories that cut across class and gender and range from political to personal expressions of violence, including terrorism and hate crimes, government-sanctioned execution, youth and gang violence, street crime, and domestic violence, The Culture of Violence includes a conversation on violence and culture in medieval epics and contemporary media, and a proscriptive essay on coping with family violence
Hands to work and hearts to God : the Shaker tradition in Maine by
Theodore E Johnson(
Book
)
4 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thomas Cornell drawings & prints by
Thomas Cornell(
Book
)
4 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck by
Philip C Beam(
Book
)
7 editions published in 1966 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Primarily a critical analysis and appraisal of Homer's work as it developed from 1883 to 1910, when his principal residence was Prout's Neck, Maine
7 editions published in 1966 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Primarily a critical analysis and appraisal of Homer's work as it developed from 1883 to 1910, when his principal residence was Prout's Neck, Maine
Maurice Prendergast : by the sea by
Maurice Prendergast(
Book
)
5 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This collection of works in various media focuses on Maurice Prendergast's creative process as he imaginatively and innovatively captured the look and feel of coastlines from New England to France and Italy"--Publisher description
5 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This collection of works in various media focuses on Maurice Prendergast's creative process as he imaginatively and innovatively captured the look and feel of coastlines from New England to France and Italy"--Publisher description
The Salton collection; Renaissance & Baroque medals & plaquettes; [catalogue of exhibition] by
Mark M Salton(
Book
)
10 editions published in 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published in 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twilight of arcadia : American landscape painters in Rome, 1830-1880 by
John W Coffey(
Book
)
5 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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- Porter, Eliot 1901-1990
- Huntsville Museum of Art
- Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
- Homer, Winslow 1836-1910 Illustrator Author
- Becker, David P. Other Author
- Homann, Joachim Other Contributor Author Editor
- West, Richard V. Author
- Warren, Edward Perry 1860-1928
- Karshan, Donald H.
- Addison Gallery of American Art
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African Americans in art Art Art, American Art, Ancient Art, Latin American Art, Renaissance--Themes, motives Artists--Psychology Art--Private collections Bowdoin College.--Museum of Art Cornell, Thomas Death in art Drawing Drawing, Italian Europe Homer, Winslow, Hopper, Edward, Identity (Psychology) in art Italy Italy--Florence Italy--Rome Ivories, Renaissance Karshan, Donald H Kent, Rockwell, Landscape painters Landscape painting, American Maine Maine--Brunswick Mannerism (Art) Medals Nature photography Night in art Painting, American Plaques, plaquettes Porter, Eliot, Portraits, American Portraits, Colonial Prendergast, Maurice, Prints Prints, American Prints, European Prints--Private collections Saint John Nepomuk (Brokof, Ferdinand Maxmilián) Science fiction in art Seashore in art Shakers Space flight in art Themes, motives United States Violence in art Zorach, Marguerite,
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