American 20th-21st Century Representational Art
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American 20th-21st Century Representational Art." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
Following are links to valuable online resources found outside our website. Links may be to museums' articles about exhibits, plus much more topical information based on our online searches.
Following online resources is information about offline resources including museums, DVDs, and paper-printed books, journals and articles.
Articles and essays from Resource Library in chronological order:
Quote:
"While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all." Ray Bradbury in his Preface to Zen in the Art of Writing (1990). Quote is sourced from Wikipedia.
From other websites:
Art Concerning Poverty and Homelessness
Artist Paintings of Foreign Scenes
20th-21st Century Art by Decades
More American 20th-21st Century Representational Art, Not Yet Classified
Visiting...With Huell Howser - LINT
ART is an archived 28-minute television broadcast presented
online by KCET.
"Huell visits his artist friend Slater Barron to witness the beauty
of art made from lint. Yes, lint." Text courtesy of KCET. Accessed
January, 2015.
PBS provides a variety of streaming
video sources for American art. PBS's two-season television series Art-21, Art in the Twenty-First
Century. PBS explains that the series is "the only series on
television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in
the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience
of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Fascinating and
intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the artists at work, watch
their process as they transform inspiration into art, and hear their thoughts
as they grapple with 
the physical and visual challenges
of achieving their artistic visions." The Art-21 website contains
video clips relating to each of the many featured artists including Laurie Anderson,
Margaret
Kilgallen, Sally
Mann, Bruce Nauman,
Raymond Pettibon,
Martin Puryear,
Susan Rothenberg,
Collier Schorr,
Kiki Smith,
William Wegman
and Fred Wilson.
The Art:21 series and its companion materials answer the following questions:
who are today's artists?; what are they thinking about?; how do they describe
their work? and why do they do what they do? The Season One and Two home
videos are two sets with four hours each. Viewers meet "a diverse group
of contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind
the scenes-into artists' studios, homes, and communities -- to provide an
intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration, and creative
processes." Representational as well as abstract artists are featured
in the videos. Accessed May, 2015.
Philocetes
Center presents a discussion with Chuck Close, Vincent Katz, and Matthew
von Unwerth about the film "Chuck Close," directed by Marion Cajori.
[32:40] Accessed May, 2015.
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