Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer

by Robert Cozzolino, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, Sarah Burns, et al.

Honor? Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reassessment of the artist: a leftist, female painter committed to figuration in an era when anti-Communist sentiment and masculine Abstract Expressionism dominated American culture. Her brightly colored, humorous,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300223137
• ISBN13: 9780300223132
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Columbus Museum of Art
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 11.3"