Grant Wood, A Life
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Grant Wood, A LifeAUTHOR: R. Tripp Evans In this powerful new biography of the man behind America's best-known painting, American Gothic (1930), art historian Tripp Evans challenges the all-American persona Grant Wood so carefully cultivated — revealing, instead, the complex figure the public never saw: a man deeply ambivalent about his region who labored mightily to conceal his homosexuality. Evans presents an artist of extraordinary gifts, haunted by hidden longing and unorthodox relationships with family members — including the powerful mother who shared Wood's studio and bedroom for more than thirty years, and the wife who disastrously replaced her. Grant Wood: A Life is a fully dimensional portrait of the man who became a national symbol, while secretly embodying much of what conservative America vilified. Book Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group PRICE: $37.50 |
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