Background
Jones, Caroline Ann was born on April 21, 1954 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Edward Ellsworth and Virginia (Sweetnam) Jones.
( Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caro...)
Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists she examines—including Stella, Warhol, and Smithson—identified their work with postwar industry and corporate culture. Drawing on extensive interviews with artists and their assistants as well as close readings of artworks, Jones explains that much of the major work of the 1960s was compelling precisely because it was central to the visual and economic culture of its time. "Jones manages to analyze art works in their historical, political, and conceptual context, giving them a thickness of description rarely possible in standard art history. . . . This is one of the best books on the period I have read so far. To paraphrase Clement Greenberg, it gives contemporary art history a good name."—Serge Guilbaut, Bookforum "Though we are some 30 years past the events of the '60s, our world is still largely responding to them, as this marvelous book amply demonstrates."—David McCarthy, New Art Examiner
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(During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay ...)
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. This study of the movement as a whole offers an account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists.
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(Major works of Picasso, Gris, Beckmann, Brancusi, Matisse...)
Major works of Picasso, Gris, Beckmann, Brancusi, Matisse, Pollock, Kiefer on early collecting of modern art; enlivening text on art galleries, dealers, artists, critics.
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(Describes the development of a movement creating figurati...)
Describes the development of a movement creating figurative, rather than abstract, art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and provides examples of its paintings, drawings and sculpture Title: Bay Area Figurative Art Author: Jones, Caroline A. Publisher: Univ of California Pr Publication Date: 1990/01/01 Number of Pages: 231 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 89040571
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( During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Ba...)
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting. The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream." Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the movement as a whole and is the broadest and most accurate account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists who worked in this new style.
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curator educator art historian
Jones, Caroline Ann was born on April 21, 1954 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Edward Ellsworth and Virginia (Sweetnam) Jones.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1977. Postgraduate, New York University, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1992.
Studio assistant Hobo Road Graphic Design, London, England, 1975-1976. Grants officer Museum Modern Art, New York City, 1977-1979, assistant coordinator exhibitions, 1979-1981, associate coordinator, 1981-1983. Assistant director for curatorial affairs Art Museum Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas., 1983-1985.
Assistant professor art history Boston University, 1992-1998, associate professor art history, since 1998. Lecturer Tel Aviv University, Civil Aeronautics Administration San Francisco, 1989, Los Angeles County Museum, 1989, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1990, Stanford University, 1990, Metropolitan Museum Art, 1991, Stanford Humanities Center, 1992, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Chicago, 1992, Museum Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1993, Boston University, 1994, 98, City University of New York Graduate Center, 1994, Harvard University, 1994, Princeton University, 1995, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 1995, Civil Aeronautics Administration Boston, 1996, International Congress of History of Art, Amsterdam, 1996, Whitney Museum American Art, 1997, British Association Art History, London, 1997, International Forum on Contemporary Art Theory, Guadalajara, 1997, University Kansas, 1997, Brown University, 1996-1998, Museum Fine Arts/Addison Gallery, 1998, among others.
( Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caro...)
(Describes the development of a movement creating figurati...)
(During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay ...)
( During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Ba...)
(Major works of Picasso, Gris, Beckmann, Brancusi, Matisse...)
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Volunteer educator Cambrige (Massachusetts) Public School, 1996, 97, 98, Radcliffe Children's Center, Cambridge, 1998. Member American Association of University Women, American Association of University Professors, American Association Museum (regional representative since 1993), College Art Association, Art Table, Inc.
Married Peter Louis Galison, January 11, 1987. Children: Samuel Alexander, Sarah Maria.