Duane Hanson, born in Alexandria, Minnesota, is known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns, sitting at tables,... Read full biography
Duane Hanson, born in Alexandria, Minnesota, is known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns, sitting at tables, playing games, etc. His concepts relate to Pop Art in that mundane objects/people are treated as though... Read full biography
Duane Hanson, born in Alexandria, Minnesota, is known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns, sitting at tables, playing games, etc. His concepts relate to Pop Art in that mundane objects/people are treated as though they have worth and artistic merit, and to Photo-Realism because his figures are deceptively real in appearance. Hanson was nearly forty-years old before finding the method and subject matter that... Read full biography
Duane Hanson, born in Alexandria, Minnesota, is known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns, sitting at tables, playing games, etc. His concepts relate to Pop Art in that mundane objects/people are treated as though they have worth and artistic merit, and to Photo-Realism because his figures are deceptively real in appearance. Hanson was nearly forty-years old before finding the method and subject matter that became his signature work. Hanson received his BA from Macalester College in 1946 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1951. Apparently from an early age, Hanson was interested in recreating the human form. One... Read full biography
Duane Hanson, born in Alexandria, Minnesota, is known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns, sitting at tables, playing games, etc. His concepts relate to Pop Art in that mundane objects/people are treated as though they have worth and artistic merit, and to Photo-Realism because his figures are deceptively real in appearance. Hanson was nearly forty-years old before finding the method and subject matter that became his signature work. Hanson received his BA from Macalester College in 1946 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1951. Apparently from an early age, Hanson was interested in recreating the human form. One of his first known sculptures is a three-dimensional wood rendering of the figure in Thomas Gainsborough's famou... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (71)
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Photorealism in the Digital Age:
2013
Meisel, Louis K.
320 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Duane Hanson: Portraits from the Heartland (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Editors, American Art Review
142 pages (color)
Writers on Artists
2001
Byatt, A.S. (foreward)
352 pages (color)
Cast of Characters: Figurative Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Hall, Dawn (editor)
62 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Sculptures by Duane Hanson
1985
Bush, Martin
128 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Duane Hanson
1985
Varnedoe, Kirk
117 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982
Von Blum, Paul
165 pages
1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Armstrong, Tom (Foreward)
159 pages
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Danoff, Michael/C K Carr
102 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers
196 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Art of the Sixties
1978
Adams, Hugh
80 pages (color)
Art Since Pop
1978
Walker, John
110 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
8 Contemporary American Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Goodyear, Frank H
62 pages (color)
1977 Biennial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Whitney Museum
104 pages
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Duane Hanson
1976
Bush, Martin
111 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
New Realism
1976
Kulturmann, Udo
190 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
Super Realism: A Critical Anthology
1975
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
322 pages (color)
The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century
1975
Cone, Michele
252 pages
John De Andrea, Duane Hanson The Real and Ideal in Figurative Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Adrian, Dennis
18 pages (color)
The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974
Schwartz, Barry
192 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
Les Hyperrrealists Americains
1973
Chase, Linda
76 pages (color)
The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
1972
Rosenberg, Harold
256 pages
Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art (Exhibition catalog)