After Many Springs

Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest

Debra Bricker Balken, Jeff Fleming

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Yale University Press
27 March 2009

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art

After Many Springs is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book––taking the name of this work by Benton––examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith.

It is commonly believed that Regionalist artists Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood reacted to the economic and social devastation of their era by harking back in tranquil bucolic paintings to a departed utopia. However, this volume compares their work to that of photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn and filmmakers such as Josef von Sternberg-all of whom documented the desolation of the Depression-and finds surprising commonalities. The book also notes intriguing connections between Regionalist artists and Modernists Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston, countering prevailing assumptions that Regionalism was an anathema to these New York School painters and showing their shared fascination with the Midwest.

Distributed for the Des Moines Art Center

Exhibition Schedule:

Des Moines Art Center (January 30 – May 17, 2009)

By: Debra Bricker Balken
Introduction by: Jeff Fleming
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780300135862
ISBN 10: 0300135866
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 27 March 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator and scholar. Jeff Fleming is director of the Des Moines Art Center.