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Author Lippert, Ellen J.

Title George Ohr : sophisticate and rube / Ellen J. Lippert
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

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Contents Part I. Ohr the man -- part II. Ohr the potter
Summary "The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration. Ellen J. Lippert, in her expansive study of Ohr and his Gilded Age context, counters this fable. The tumultuous historical moment that Ohr inhabited was a formative force in his life and work. Using primary documentation, Lippert identifies specific cultural changes that had the most impact on Ohr. Developments in visual display and the altered role of artists, the southerner redefined in the wake of the Civil War, interest in handicraft as an alternative to rampant mass production, emerging tenets of social thought seeking to remedy worker exploitation, and new assessments of morals and beauty as a result of collapsed ideals all played into the positioning Ohr purposefully designed for himself. The second part of Lippert's study applies these observations to Ohr's body of work, interpreting his stylistic originality to be expressions of the contradictions and oppositions particular to late nineteenth-century America. Ohr threw his inspiration into being both the sophisticate and the "rube," the commercial huckster and the selfless artist, the socialist and the individualist, the "old-fashioned" craftsman and the "artist-genius.""-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Mar. 19, 2014)
Subject Ohr, George E., 1857-1918 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Ohr, George E., 1857-1918 fast
Subject Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Ceramics.
TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Art and society
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013015930
ISBN 9781617039027
1617039020
9781621039884
1621039889