American Painting In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0198042256

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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Novak Pdf

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.

Author : Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015003424992

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America by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Pdf

A specifically American form of art emerged in the nineteenth century that was much more than just a reflection of European developments or stylistic trends. It was a period during which noteworthy local traditions were brought to light, and this is reflected in the selection of landscapes, portraits, and genre paintings contained in this volume, with a plate section including 146 works by 43 artists. The works provide a comprehensive survey of American painting spanning more than one hundred years, from the close of the eighteenth century until World War I. In the context of their genre, these works demonstrate both the continuity and the breaks in the development of nineteenth-century American art and question the established art-historical narrative of American painting.

Author : John Ireland Howe Baur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Painting
ISBN : UOM:39015006367331

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American Painting in the Nineteenth Century by John Ireland Howe Baur Pdf

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Artabras Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015024778634

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Nineteenth-century American Painting by Barbara Novak Pdf

A stunning view of one of the most important collections in the world. The Thyssen-Bornemisza is perhaps the definitive collection of 19th century American painting. In this fascinating catalog, Barbara Novak presents the works in the context of the culture in which they were created--with all the great artists represented: Bierstadt, Catlin, Cole, Copley, Homer, Inness, Sargent, and Whistler. 160 illustrations, 109 in full-color.

Author : Karen L. Georgi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271062471

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Critical Shift by Karen L. Georgi Pdf

American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography. It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.

Author : Lee M. Edwards
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Domestic Bliss by Lee M. Edwards Pdf

Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204995

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Haunted Visions by Charles Colbert Pdf

Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age. Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the evolution of modern attitudes toward creativity. He argues that Spiritualism made a singular contribution to the sanctification of art that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The faith maintained that spiritual energies could reside in objects, and thus works of art could be appreciated not only for what they illustrated but also as vessels of the psychic vibrations their creators impressed into them. Such beliefs sanctified both the making and collecting of art in an era when Darwinism and Positivism were increasingly disenchanting the world and the efforts to represent it. In this context, Spiritualism endowed the artist's profession with the prestige of a religious calling; in doing so, it sought not to replace religion with art, but to make art a site where religion happened.

Author : Torsten Gunnarsson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300070415

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Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Torsten Gunnarsson Pdf

This study identifies and analyzes the different types of landscape painting that dominated the Scandinavian countries in the 19th century. The author shows how the wilderness became a symbol of Nordic strength, as well as a counter-image to industrialization and European urban culture.

Author : Barbara S. Groseclose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842250

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Nineteenth-century American Art by Barbara S. Groseclose Pdf

"Many well-known artists, including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, and lesser-known artists like Harriet Hosmer are closely examined, as is the art world of the time. In addition to discussing the free movement of American visual culture between 'high' and 'low', Barbara Groseclose interweaves nineteenth-century art criticism with current art history, to create a fascinating insight into the changing interpretations of American art of this period."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300057326

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Picturing a Nation by David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin Pdf

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Ellen Gross Miles,Patricia Burda,Cynthia J. Mills,Leslie Kaye Reinhardt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015031876363

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American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century by National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Ellen Gross Miles,Patricia Burda,Cynthia J. Mills,Leslie Kaye Reinhardt Pdf

The energy and optimism of the new nation are apparent in this catalogue, which features John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Previously unpublished documents and infrared reflectograms shed new light on Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), Copley's Watson and the Shark, and Edward Savage's Washington Family.

Author : Stanley Mazaroff
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421424446

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A Paris Life, A Baltimore Treasure by Stanley Mazaroff Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE: The Cultivation of Lucas -- CHAPTER TWO: The Wandering Road to Paris -- CHAPTER THREE: Lucas and Paris in a Time of Transition -- CHAPTER FOUR: Lucas and Whistler -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Links to Lucas -- CHAPTER SIX: From Ecouen to Barbizon -- CHAPTER SEVEN: M, Eugène, and Maud -- CHAPTER EIGHT: When Money Is No Object -- CHAPTER NINE: The Lucas Collection -- CHAPTER TEN: The Final Years -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Terms of Lucas's Will -- CHAPTER TWELVE: A Collection in Search of a Home -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Shot across the Bow -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Glorification of Lucas -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: In Judge Kaplan's Court -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Lucas Saved -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520282896

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Rendering Violence by Ross Barrett Pdf

Rendering Violence explores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently. Examining a range of critical texts, this book shows for the first time that nineteenth-century American aesthetic theory defined painting as a privileged vehicle for the representation of political order and the stabilization of liberal-democratic life. Analyzing seven paintings by Thomas Cole, John Quidor, Nathaniel Jocelyn, George Henry Hall, Thomas Nast, Martin Leisser, and Robert Koehler, Ross Barrett reconstructs the strategies that American artists developed to explore the symbolic power of violence in a medium aligned ideologically with lawful democracy. He argues that American paintings of upheaval ÒrenderÓ their subjects in divergent ways. By exploring the inner conflicts that structure these painterly projects, Barrett sheds new light on the politicized pressures that shaped visual representation in the nineteenth century and on the anxieties and ambivalences that have long defined American responses to political turmoil.

Author : Elizabeth Johns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300057547

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American Genre Painting by Elizabeth Johns Pdf

American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings--of farmers, western boatmen and trappers, blacks both slave and free, middle-class women, urban urchins, and other everyday folk--served as records of an innocent age, reflecting a Jacksonian optimism and faith in the common man. In this enlightening book Elizabeth Johns presents a different interpretation--arguing that genre paintings had a social function that related in a more significant and less idealistic way to the political and cultural life of the time. Analyzing works by William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, David Gilmore Blythe, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others, Johns reveals the humor and cynicism in the paintings and places them in the context of stories about the American character that appeared in sources ranging from almanacs and newspapers to joke books and political caricature. She compares the productions of American painters with those of earlier Dutch, English, and French genre artists, showing the distinctive interests of American viewers. Arguing that art is socially constructed to meet the interests of its patrons and viewers, she demonstrates that the audience for American genre paintings consisted of New Yorkers with a highly developed ambition for political and social leadership, who enjoyed setting up citizens of the new democracy as targets of satire or condescension to satisfy their need for superiority. It was this network of social hierarchies and prejudices--and not a blissful celebration of American democracy--that informed the look and the richly ambiguous content of genre painting.

Author : Stephan Koja,Nicolai Cikovsky,Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791320882

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America - die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts by Stephan Koja,Nicolai Cikovsky,Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Pdf

"A specifically American form of art emerged in the nineteenth century that was much more than just a reflection of European developments or stylistic trends. It was a period during which noteworthy local traditions were brought to light, and this is reflected in the selection of landscapes, portraits, and genre paintings contained in this volume, with a plate section including 146 works by 43 artists." "The works provide a comprehensive survey of American painting spanning more than one hundred years, from the close of the eighteenth century until World War I. In the context of their genre, these works demonstrate both the continuity and the breaks in the development of nineteenth-century American art and question the established art-historical narrative of American painting."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved