{"product_id":"the-truth-in-things-the-life-and-career-of-lamar-dodd","title":"The Truth in Things: The Life and Career of Lamar Dodd","description":"From the beginning of his practice of art  Lamar Dodd  one of the most influential artists in the twentieth-century South  subscribed to Vasaris dictum that drawing is the mother of the arts. Although Dodd passed through a variety of styles  always attempting to get at \"the truth in things \" the verities that underlie mere representation and make a picture a story  this relentless seekers draftsmanship can be seen as the constant underpinning of his decades-long painting career. This first monographic treatment of Dodds life and work shows how  even in his more abstract works  description and narrative are intermingled so that symbols take on iconographic gravity through repetition. Thus  cruciform shapes reappear in the \"heart series\" of the 1970s  just as circles and lines become elemental representations of time and permanence in his \"space series.\" William U. Eiland discusses the various stylistic shifts of the artists truth-seeking  from the realism of the thirties  through the cubism and abstract expressionism of the late forties and fifties  to his return to a mature naturalism tempered by a growing optimism in the ability of the artist to order and explain the universe.  Lamar Dodd has been an arts administrator  arts advocate  and teacher  but he has always preferred the role of artist. As a young man  he studied at the Art Students League and there came in contact with many of the men and women who would define the major currents in American art for the remainder of the century. An early practitioner of ashcan and American scene principles  Dodd returned to his native South and made his project a cultural reawakening  one in which regional themes and concerns would predominate. He founded the University of Georgias department of art and headed it until the mid-1970s. In 1995 the department was officially named the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Dodd also served as an \"ambassador for art\" in his role as a representative of the State Department abroad and as two-term president of the College Art Association.  Eiland treats the artists career as a whole  going beyond the particularized discussions to date of certain phases or periods of Dodds work. Dodds goal has always been to find essential truths in nature and in humankinds relationship to our world. The Truth in Things reveals how consistent and unerring his quest has been.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44667532214325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820318280","price":66.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0820318280_41de3a72-2401-4c91-b692-c09c9829a95e.jpg?v=1770584263","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-truth-in-things-the-life-and-career-of-lamar-dodd","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}