Grandma Moses: A Good Days Work

摩西奶奶：一日辛劳颂

ISBN：9780691272412 

出版日期：2025-10-28

页数：272

尺寸：9.25 x 11 英寸

插图：172幅彩色插图。

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

《摩西奶奶：美好的一天》一书重新定位了安娜·玛丽·罗伯逊·“摩西奶奶”（1860-1961），将她视为美国艺术界一位多维度的人物。她对乡村生活的深情回忆，使她在战后时代的文化想象中占据了独特的地位。摩西八十岁时，纽约艺术品经销商、刚从纳粹占领下的奥地利移民到美国的奥托·卡利尔将她介绍给了世人。“摩西奶奶”（媒体对她的昵称）很快成为一位极具争议的人物：她深受公众喜爱，却因其故事场景和缺乏正规训练而被艺术界所忽视。

本书以摩西对自身生活的反思——“美好的一天”——为基础，追溯了她从早期艺术尝试到形成标志性风格的创作历程，展现了一位多维度的艺术家，她将对自然、劳动和个人记忆的直接观察融为一体，讲述独特而引人入胜的故事。本书将摩西定位为二十世纪美国艺术史上的核心人物，她是一位画家，其生平和作品见证了美国内战、两次世界大战以及民权运动时期。

图文并茂的《摩西奶奶：美好的一天》捕捉到了摩西在艺术创作中展现的不屈不挠的精神，传递出一种坦诚而权威的风格，这种风格在今天仍然与人们对美国本土视觉传统的追求产生共鸣。

Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent émigré from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. “Grandma Moses,” as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training.

Drawing on Moses’s reflection on her own life as “a good day’s work,” the book charts Moses’s creative development from her earliest artistic efforts to the emergence of her signature style, revealing a multidimensional artist who fused direct observation of nature, labor, and personal memories to tell idiosyncratic yet compelling stories. It positions Moses as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art, a painter whose life and work bore witness to the Civil War, two world wars, and the civil rights era.

Beautifully illustrated, Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work captures the indomitable spirit Moses brought to her artmaking, conveying a candor and authority that still resonate today with the quest for a homespun American visual tradition.

莱斯利·安伯格是史密森尼美国艺术博物馆民间艺术和自学艺术高级策展人，兰德尔·R·格里菲是该馆首席策展人，埃莉诺·琼斯·哈维是高级策展人。埃里卡·多斯是德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校伊迪丝·奥唐纳艺术史杰出讲席教授。斯泰西·C·霍兰德是美国自学艺术学者，曾任纽约美国民间艺术博物馆策展事务副馆长、首席策展人和展览总监。凯瑟琳·詹特尔森是亚特兰大高等艺术博物馆梅里和丹·布恩民间艺术和自学艺术策展人。简·卡利尔是纽约卡利尔研究所所长。

Leslie Umberger is senior curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where Randall R. Griffey is head curator and Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator. Erika Doss holds the Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair in Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. Stacy C. Hollander is a scholar of American self-taught art and former deputy director of curatorial affairs, chief curator, and director of exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Katherine Jentleson is the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Jane Kallir is president of the Kallir Research Institute in New York.