Modernism, Identity, and Spirituality in Joseph Stella's Paintings of Christian Subjects.
Joseph Stella is best known today as one of the first modernist painters in the United States. He created colorful Cubist-Futurist inspired paintings of modern urban structures and spaces, especially the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. He occasionally did some paintings and drawings of Christian s...
| Publicado en: | Religion & the Arts Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 498 - 522 |
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2022
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