Explores Sheeler's (1883-1965) seminal series on Doylestown (Penna.) house, Chartres Cathedral, NYC, the River Rogue auto plant. Splendid plates cover his work from 1916 to 1950. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Knihy
Considered one of the most significant painters of the period between the two world wars and founder of the precisionist school, Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was also one of the pivotal photgraphers of the modernist movement in America. His direct style can be likened to that of his contemporaries Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Edward Steichen and he is probably best known for documenting the transformation of the American urban landscape (in both his photos and paintings), and for an early series of photos that pay homage to his 19th-century farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
