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001 2013014727
003 DLC
005 20141205083504.0
008 130411s2013 msu b s001 0deng
010 $a 2013014727
020 $a9781617039010 (hardback)
020 $z9781617039027 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aNK4210.O42$bL57 2013
082 00 $a738.092$aB$223
084 $aART045000$aTRV025080$aBIO001000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLippert, Ellen J.
245 10 $aGeorge Ohr :$bsophisticate and rube /$cEllen J. Lippert.
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c2013.
300 $ax, 163 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration. Ellen J. Lippert, in her expansive study of Ohr and his Gilded Age context, counters this fable. The tumultuous historical moment that Ohr inhabited was a formative force in his life and work. Using primary documentation, Lippert identifies specific cultural changes that had the most impact on Ohr. Developments in visual display and the altered role of artists, the southerner redefined in the wake of the Civil War, interest in handicraft as an alternative to rampant mass production, emerging tenets of social thought seeking to remedy worker exploitation, and new assessments of morals and beauty as a result of collapsed ideals all played into the positioning Ohr purposefully designed for himself. The second part of Lippert's study applies these observations to Ohr's body of work, interpreting his stylistic originality to be expressions of the contradictions and oppositions particular to late nineteenth-century America. Ohr threw his inspiration into being both the sophisticate and the "rube," the commercial huckster and the selfless artist, the socialist and the individualist, the "old-fashioned" craftsman and the "artist-genius.""--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aOhr, George E.,$d1857-1918$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aART / Ceramics.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aTRAVEL / United States / South / East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.$2bisacsh
776 08 $iOnline version:$aLippert, Ellen J.$tGeorge Ohr$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013$z9781617039027$w(DLC) 2013015930
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/2785463/image/lgcover.9781617039010.jpg