Grant Wood : American Gothic and other fables / Barbara Haskell ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Eric Banks, Emily Braun, Richard Meyer, Shirley Reece-Hughes.

Contributor Haskell, Barbara, curator.

ImprintNew York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2018]

ImprintNew Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Imprint2018

Description271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Note:Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, organized by Barbara Haskell, curator; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 2-June 10, 2018.

Note:Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Grant Wood: through the past, darkly / Barbara Haskell -- Willow, weep for me / Glenn Adamson -- Moments of discovery: Grant Wood's theatrical paintings / Shirley Reece-Hughes -- Like a book: Grant Wood's literary associations / Eric Banks -- Cryptic corn: Magic realism and the art of Grant Wood / Emily Braun -- Grant Wood goes gay / Richard Meyer -- Plates -- Grant Wood: a chronicle / Barbara Haskell.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.

Note:The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling images of estrangement and apprehension that pictorially manifest the anxiety of modern life-- Provided by publisher.

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