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Book SynopsisExtensively illustrated with works that have not been previously published, Midcentury Modernism in Texas gives Texas artists their due place in American art during this vital and canon-defining period, while also valuing the quality of Texan-ness that su
Trade Review"…a thorough, well-researched study of modernist activity in Texas…Well-illustrated and nicely organized, this study will be useful to scholars and students of American studies and American art history and of special interest to those concerned with mid-century modernism in Texas." * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
The Modernist Impulse and Texas Art
The 1930s and the Texas Centennial
Houston and the Foundations of Early Texas Modernism
Early Practitioners of Abstraction and Nonobjectivity
The Fort Worth Circle
The University of Texas at Austin in the 1940s and 1950s
The 1950s and Houston
Sculpture in and around the Studio of Charles Williams
Are Texans American? MoMA’s Americans Exhibitions
Postscript: What Happened to Earnest Modernism?
Appendix
Selected Artists’ Biographies
Sarah Beth Wilson
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index
