Illustrating 113 works by 101 artists that span more than 60 years of American art after World War I, Modern American Realism includes outstanding examples of many kinds of realism -- psychological, socio-political, spiritual, and satirical, with surrealism and magic realism showing up as well.
Biographies and short bibliographies for each artist make the book especially useful. Among the artists included are Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Mark Tobey, Gaston Lachaise, Raphael Soyer, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Evergood, George Tooker, and Paul Cadmus.
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