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portada The Couple with the Pitchfork. American Gothic from Easel to Icon
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
26.70 x 20.30 cm
ISBN13
9780691286341

The Couple with the Pitchfork. American Gothic from Easel to Icon

Wanda M. Corn (Author) · Princeton University Press · Hardcover

The Couple with the Pitchfork. American Gothic from Easel to Icon - Wanda M. Corn

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Synopsis "The Couple with the Pitchfork. American Gothic from Easel to Icon"

A rich, unfolding history of one of the most recognized couples in the worldIn this abundantly illustrated book, award-winning art historian Wanda Corn tracks the fortunes and vicissitudes of Grant Wood’s American Gothic, his 1930 realist painting of a rural man and woman posed stiffly before a modest white house with a gothic-styled window. She explores Wood’s scrappy formation as a disadvantaged midwestern artist and his unexpected, overnight fame when American Gothic premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago and was purchased for the museum’s collection. After a close look at the painting’s volatile reputation for its first thirty years, Corn turns to that historic moment in the 1960s when the couple with their pitchfork left the museum and journeyed into the streets. Shedding their preciousness as art, they became a versatile, free-floating image open to anyone’s miming or reuse. That moment also found Corn beginning her long career in art history, and she interweaves her story with that of the couple’s evolving appearances in pop art, cartoons, advertisements, and grassroots reenactments. She offers compelling explanations for the painting’s entry into the pantheon of cult visual images. Today, Wood’s couple stands alongside other art icons: Whistler’s mother, Rodin’s thinker, Hokusai’s wave, Munch’s screamer, and the enigmatic beauty in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. A highly readable and personalized study of a painter and the work he would forever be tied to, The Couple with the Pitchfork sheds critical light on the cultural forces that transformed an image with humble roots into a global icon whose reach and charisma extends far beyond the world of art.

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