{"product_id":"to-make-a-world-george-ault-and-1940s-america-9780300172393","title":"To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America\u003c\/strong\u003e by Nemerov, Alexander. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300172393.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window onto the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920s, Ault eventually withdrew from both artistic and political worlds in 1937 and set up his studio in a tiny house in Woodstock, New York, where he produced evocative scenes of barns, telephone wires, and streetlights that utilize precise alignments and geometries to impose a symbolic order on a world in crisis.\nTo Make a World is the first publication on Ault in more than two decades, and it features nearly twenty of Aults paintings alongside those of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, and Andrew Wyeth. Author Alexander Nemerov explains that despite Aults remote location and reclusive lifestyle, his paintings represent his fear for the precarious state of the world and reflect an emotional response shared by many artists and the nation at large.\n\nPublished in association with the Smithsonian Museum of American Art\n\nExhibition Schedule:\nSmithsonian Museum of American Art\n(03\/11\/11-09\/05\/11)\nNelson-Atkins Museum of Art\n(10\/15\/11-01\/08\/12)\nGeorgia Museum of Art\n(02\/18\/12-04\/16\/12)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986579714101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300172397","price":182.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300172393_8dd65a9e-385f-4491-b208-895ff044752a.jpg?v=1792876031","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-make-a-world-george-ault-and-1940s-america-9780300172393","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}