American Catalogue - Softcover

American Cat-alogue. The Cat in American Folk Art.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. Ca. 100 S.; zahlr. Illustr.; 23 cm; kart. Gutes Ex.; Einband leicht berieben. - Englisch. - Artists often convey a message or create a mood with iconography. Many animals because of repeated reference in mythology, literature, and art have come to have iconographical meanings. For instance, the owl was used in Renaissance paintings and prints to convey a sense of evil: the presence of an owl in a Dürer print always indicates foreboding. These animals acquire such meanings from their character, particularly those traits which seem to be human. The Museum has assembled examples of American folk art which depict the cat in many and varied forms. It is important to note where the cat is used and not used, and examine why it has been used so often, looking at its iconographical and artistic use. Perhaps it is because of their penetrating, alert stare, perhaps it is because of the elegance, sureness, gracefulness, and pride with which a cat strolls through a parlor or moves through an alley, or perhaps it is because they are wild and domestic at the same time; whatever the reason, the cat has been respected as a creature of mystery since the time of the Egyptians, and has appeared in the art of almost every culture -sometimes as deity, sometimes as devil. American folk artists have used every kind of cat in every kind of pose in every kind of artform-black cats (fig. 38), white cats (fig. 11), tabbies (fig. 14), short hairs (fig. 72), long hairs (fig. 108), sleeping cats (fig. 55), sitting cats (fig. 15), playing kittens (fig. 44), mouse hunters (fig. 68), lap cats (fig. 20), hissing cats (fig. 78)-on canvas (fig. 90), on whaleteeth (fig. 8), on fireboards (fig. Ill), on quilts (fig. 39), on hooked rugs (fig. 112), as pottery (fig. 13), and even as a carrousel figure (fig. 107). In many paintings, the cat is the sole subject. In others, he is painted as the companion of an adult or child (fig. 42). Some cats are difficult to find because they are hiding (fig. 97), or in the background (fig. 61), but always they are important to the composition and action of the work. Although the cat is so ubiquitous in child portraiture that he is often not noticed, his presence is necessary to the success of the painting. No matter how tiny and seemingly insignificant, if the cat is taken away, the composition loses its vitality and the painting becomes stagnant and less interesting. Cover up the cats in fig. 40 and fig. 93, and it becomes clear that the cat adds depth to a rather flat painting. (Vorwort) ISBN 0380005905 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Artikel-Nr. 1092356

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