American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum; DelMonico Books Prestel, 2015. 239 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, in collaboration with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: The young executive and me, by Rob LaZebnik; Hollywood journey, by Thomas Hart Benton; True west: Thomas Hart Benton and American epics, by Austen Barron Bailly; John Ford, Thomas Hart Benton, and the American frontier, by John Herron; The Grapes of Wrath in pictures, by Margaret C. Conrads; "Dem shoes": Thomas Hart Benton's Romance, by Richard J. Powell; Movie culture in the segregated era, by Matthew Bernstein; Mining the dream factory: Thomas Hart Benton, American artists, and the rise of the movie industry; The Hollywood "notes", by Janet C. Blyberg; Machinery of the industry, by Leo G. Mazow; Thomas Hart Benton and the art of painting cinematically, by Jake Milgram Wien; The year of painting furiously: Thomas Hart Benton, 1942, by Jake Milgram Wien; Negro soldier: American manhood personified, by Pellom McDaniels III; Why I live where I live, by Griel Marcus; Benton, Hollywood, and history: a timeline, by Sarah N. Chasse.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.