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Books by Alexander Nemerov
  | | Summoning Pearl Harbor(1st Edition) (ekphrasis) by Alexander Nemerov Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941701-65-2, ISBN: 1-941701-65-5 ""Now he had time to think. Tadayoshi Koga, 19 years old, had just crash-landed his Mitsubishi Zero airplane on the remote Aleutian island of Akutan. It was June 1942, six months after Pearl Harbor..."Summoning Pearl Harbor is famed art historian Alexander Nemerov's mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering.How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind o ..." |
 | | Wartime Kiss Visions of the Moment in the 1940s (Essays in the Arts) by Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14578-5, ISBN: 0-691-14578-4 " Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an array of mostly forgotten images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart a ..." |
 | | The Body of Raphaelle Peale(1st Edition) Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Imprint) by Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22498-8, ISBN: 0-520-22498-1 "The American painter Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) left a legacy of vibrantly beautiful still lifes depicting objects such as fruit, vegetables, and meat. In this lively and literate study, the first book-length exploration of the artist, Alexander Nemerov presents a radical new reading of these paintings focusing on the uncanny quality of Raphaelle's still-life objects. Nemerov argues that the physical presence of these objects is not st ..." |
 | | Soulmaker The Times of Lewis Hine by Mr Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17017-6, ISBN: 0-691-17017-7 "A personal reassessment of Lewis Hine's iconic, haunting photos of child workers in the early twentieth centuryBetween 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont a ..." |
 | | Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (Paperback) by Alexander Nemerov Paperback, 289 Pages, Published 2022 by Penguin Putnam Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56020-3, ISBN: 0-525-56020-3 "Marca - Rellis ' door , one of the guests at Helen's dinner party . Howard presumably was there , too : Greenberg later confided to his journal of his “ terror at seeing Howard en menáge w . Helen in Springs . " What distressed him most ..." |
 | | Acting in the Night Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War by Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25186-1, ISBN: 0-520-25186-5 "What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863 - with Abraham Lincoln in attendance - to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar", in which ..." |
 | | Icons of Grief(1st Edition) Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24100-8, ISBN: 0-520-24100-2 "This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World War II. Alexander Nemerov focuses on the iconic, isolated figures who appear in four of Lewton's small-budget classics - "The Curse of the Cat People", "The Ghost Ship", "I Walked with a Zombie", and "Bedlam". These ghosts, outcasts, and oth ..." |
 | | World War I and American Art(1st Edition) by Pearl James, Robert Cozzolino, Assistant Professor Jason Weems, Anne Classen Knutson, David M. Lubin, David S. Reynolds, Mr Alexander Nemerov, Amy Helene Kirschke, Alexander Nemerov, Jason Weems Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17269-9, ISBN: 0-691-17269-2 "World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impassioned observers, or participants on the battlefields. It was the moment when American artists, designers, and illustrators began to consider the importance of their contributions to the wider world and to visually represent the United States' emergent role in modern global politics. World W ..." |
 | | Hotel Texas An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy by Olivier Meslay, David M. Lubin, Scott Grant Barker, Nicola Longford, Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2013 by Dallas Museum Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18756-4, ISBN: 0-300-18756-4 "The story of a bittersweet, impromptu art exhibition for President and Mrs. Kennedy The events associated with John F. Kennedy’s death are etched into our nation’s memory. This fascinating book tells a less familiar part of the story, about a special art exhibition organized by a group of Fort Worth citizens. On November 21, 1963, the Kennedys arrived in Fort Worth around midnight, making their way to Suite 850 of the Hotel Texas. There ..." |
 | | Experience(Updated) (Terra Foundation Essays) by Alexander Nemerov, Michael Amico, Lucy Mackintosh, Jennifer Jane Marshall, David Peters Corbett Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by Terra Foundation For American Art ISBN-13: 978-0-932171-63-4, ISBN: 0-932171-63-X "In his noteworthy theoretical essay “Experience,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, for the past thirty years, scholarship in American art has assumed that works of art are coded and has analyzed them accordingly, often with constructive results. The fourth volume in the Ter ..." |
 | | True Grit(1st Edition) American Prints from 1900 to 1950 by Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, Alexander Nemerov, Aa.Vv. Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-627-0, ISBN: 1-60606-627-7 "An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and “gritty” modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making pri ..." |
 | | Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (Hardback) by Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1900 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56018-0, ISBN: 0-525-56018-1 ""A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as both an artist and a woman in the vibrant art world of 1950s New York"--" |
 | | Cynthia Daignault Light Atlas by David Campany, Cynthia Daignault, Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-941366-18-9, ISBN: 1-941366-18-X "In 2014, American painter Cynthia Daignault (born 1978) traveled around the entire outside border of the USA, stopping roughly every 25 miles to paint the view before her. The resulting monumental work, Light Atlas, is a grand portrait of America in 360 canvases that reveal slow shifts in hue, atmosphere, depth, industry and economy.This catalog reproduces every painting of Light Atlas at 1:1 scale, in a filmic retelling of her journey ..." |
 | | Anne Brigman(1st Edition) A Visionary in Modern Photography by Ann M. Wolfe, Susan Ehrens, Alexander Nemerov, Kathleen Pyne, Heather Waldroup, Anne Brigman Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Rizzoli Electa ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6287-0, ISBN: 0-8478-6287-9 "A much-anticipated look at one of the first feminist artists, best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes outdoors in rugged Northern California.This monumental publication rediscovers and celebrates the work of Anne Brigman, whose photography was considered radical for its time. For Brigman to objectify her own nude body as the subject of her photographs at the turn of the 20th century ..." |
 | | Mitchell Johnson(1st Edition) Color as Content (2014) by Alexander Nemerov, Jennifer Samet, John Seed, Peter Campion, Peter Selz, John Goodrich, Claude Pichevin, Marilena Pasquali, Mitchell Johnson, Sofie Filt Læntver Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Menlo Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9829874-5-2, ISBN: 0-9829874-5-5 "This massive 288 page monograph includes over 250 color plates and is published to accompany an exhibit of Mitchell Johnson's paintings at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2015 as well as several San Francisco exhibitions. Essays written by Alexander Nemerov, Jennifer Samet, John Seed, John Goodrich, Claude Pichevin, Marilena Pasquali, Sofie Filt Læntver and Peter Campion establish a context for Johnson's color and shape driven work. Th ..." |
 | | To Make a World(1st Edition) George Ault and 1940s America by Alexander Nemerov, Elizabeth Broun, George Ault Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2011 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17239-3, ISBN: 0-300-17239-7 "Physical description. 151 p.: ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm. Notes; Published in conjunction with an exhibition also held at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 8 Oct. - 31 Dec. 2011; and Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga., 18 Feb. - 16 Apr. 2012. Biog.; colls. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), 11 Sept. - 5 Nov. 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index. ..." |
 | | Frederic Remington(2nd Edition) The Color of Night by Nancy K. Anderson, William C. Sharpe., Alexander Nemerov, Frederic Remington, Denver Art Museum Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2003 by Princeton Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-89468-299-5, ISBN: 0-89468-299-7 " In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor ..." |
 | | Andrew Wyeth(1st Edition) Memory & Magic by David Cateforis, Wanda M. Corn, Joyce Hill Stoner, Randall C. Griffin, Patricia Junker, Francine Weiss, Donald Kuspit, Mr Alexander Nemerov, Katie Robinson Edwards, Alexander Nemerov, Wanda Corn Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28029-8, ISBN: 0-520-28029-6 " Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was reviled by the art world’s critical elite. Rethinking Andrew Wyeth reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his work. In addition to surveying the American critical reception of Wyeth’s art over the seven decades of his career, David Cat ..." |
 | | Moby Dick by Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Nemerov, Tara Mcdowell, Claire Fitzsimmons Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2010 by Cca Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts ISBN-13: 978-0-9802055-2-7, ISBN: 0-9802055-2-2 "Designed as an homage to the classic 1930 Random House edition of Moby-Dick, with its illustrations by Rockwell Kent, this investigation of present-day America through the lens of Herman Melville's great novel convenes artists and film-makers who have made works relating to its themes of seafaring and the pitting of humankind against the elements. The participants in this homage are Kenneth Anger, Matthew Benedict, Mark Bradford, Marcel ..." |
 | | Morris Louis Now(1st Edition) An American Master Revisited by Kelly Morris, Lori Cavagnaro, Jeffrey Grove, Morris Louis, Klaus Kertess, Alexander Nemerov, Shepherd Steiner, Et Al Louis, Diane Upright, San Diego Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2006 by High Museum Of Art, Atlanta, ISBN-13: 978-1-932543-10-0, ISBN: 1-932543-10-4 "Physical description; 136 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 24 x 31 cm. Notes; Catalog of an exhibition held at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Nov. 4, 2006-Jan. 24, 2007, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Feb. 17-May 6, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-133). Text by Klaus Kertess, Alexander Nemerov and Shepherd F. Steiner. Contents; Partial contents Beauty's stain / Klaus Kertess -- Morris Louis: court ..." |
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