American Painting Of The Nineteenth Century

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : John Ireland Howe Baur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : 47,9 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 : Barbara S. Groseclose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Lee M. Edwards
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Domestic Bliss by Lee M. Edwards Pdf

Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : 0520249879

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Painting the Dark Side by Sarah Burns Pdf

Sarah Burns examines the presentation of the gothic in 19th century American painting. Dismissing notions that gothic was the work only of misfits, she shows how it influenced romantic and realist painters, and at how gothic painters such as Quidor, Blythe and Rimmer participated in the development of American art.

Author : Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : The Thyssen Bornemisza collection (Madrid)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 880429700X

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Nineteenth-century American Painting by The Thyssen Bornemisza collection (Madrid) Pdf

Author : Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire,Will Slauter
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800641495

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Circulation and Control by Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire,Will Slauter Pdf

The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of artworks also raised new questions about the legal rights of painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers, architects, collectors, publishers, and subjects of representation (such as sitters in paintings or photographs). Copyright and patent laws tussled with informal cultural norms and business strategies as individuals and groups attempted to exert some degree of control over these visual creations. With contributions by art historians, legal scholars, historians of publishing, and specialists of painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic arts, this rich collection of essays explores the relationship between intellectual property laws and the cultural, economic, and technological factors that transformed the pictorial landscape during the nineteenth century. This book will be valuable reading for historians of art and visual culture; legal scholars who work on the history of copyright and patent law; and literary scholars and historians who work in the field of book history. It will also resonate with anyone interested in current debates about the circulation and control of images in our digital age.

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 : 52,6 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 : Elizabeth Johns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Charles Colbert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Shalon Parker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611496710

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Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Shalon Parker Pdf

In late nineteenth-century France, when Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution had finally begun to permeate French culture and society, several academic artists turned to a relatively new sub-genre of history painting, the prehistoric-themed subject. This artistic interest in Darwin’s theories was manifested as paintings and sculptures of prehistoric humanity engaged in physical conflict with each other or other animals, struggling for food, or hunting—all nineteenth-century popular understandings of “survival of the fittest.” This book examines how this sub-genre captured the imagination of French Salon painters from the 1880s to early 1900s, in particular that of Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), one of the foremost academic painters during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. A central argument of this book concerns the unique interpretation of prehistoric humanity that Cormon visualized in his paintings. While the vast majority of prehistoric-themed images made by his salon colleagues focused on violence, combat, and sexual conquest, Cormon’s paintings depict a conflict-free humanity, in which collaboration and cooperation dominate, rather than physical struggle. This study probes the French intellectual understanding and appropriation of Darwin’s theories and considers how the French (mis)translation of The Origin of Species by Clémence-Auguste Royer, the first French translator of the text—along with Neo-Lamarckism and republican ideology in Third Republic France—may have collectively shaped Cormon’s representation of early humanity. The art press overwhelmingly favored Cormon’s visualization of the prehistoric world over that of his Salon peers. Through extended analysis of the art criticism concerning Cormon’s work, Shalon Parker argues that critics’ very clear preference for Cormon’s paintings was rooted in their awareness that he utilized the sub-genre of the prehistoric as a forum in which to reimagine and revive academic figurative painting at a time when the critical reception of Salon art had reached its nadir. Additionally, this study provides a broad overview of the visual models, in particular the anthropological and ethnographic texts and imagery, most readily available to Cormon as sources for shaping his vision of the prehistoric world.

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1269252633

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Nineteenth-century American Painting by Barbara Novak Pdf

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870992636

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German Masters of the Nineteenth Century by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf