Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity

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This beautifully produced volume celebrates the life and career of Adaline Kent (1900 1957), a member of one of the Bay Area s most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Kent is linked to modernist artists Ruth Asawa, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Isamu Noguchi, and Clyord Still. Texts by a diverse range of scholars cover such subjects as infinity and movement in Kent s work; the influence of nature; setting her work in the context of the organic abstractions of other American midcentury artists such as Noguchi, Arshile Gorky, and Roberto Matta; and the artistic milieu at the San Francisco Art Institute that surrounded Kent and her husband, artist Bob Howard.

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Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art. Jeff Gunderson is the librarian and archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute. Alexander Nemerov is professor and chair of the department of art and art history at Stanford University. Elaine Yau, PhD, is associate curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.