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Author : American Art-Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015011394197
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Author : American Art-Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022909233
Author : Kimberly A. Orcutt
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781531507008
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial question: Why did such a successful and influential institution fail? The American Art-Union reveals a sprawling and fascinating account of the country’s first nationwide artistic phenomenon, creating a shared experience of visual culture, art news and criticism, and a direct experience with original works. For an annual fee of five dollars, members of the American Art-Union received an engraving after a painting by a notable US artist and the annual publication Transactions (1839–49) and later the monthly Bulletin (1848–53). Most importantly, members’ names were entered in a drawing for hundreds of original paintings and sculptures by most of the era’s best-known artists. Those artworks were displayed in its immensely popular Free Gallery. Unfortunately, the experiment was short-lived. Opposition grew, and a cascade of events led to an 1852 court case that proved to be the Art-Union’s downfall. Illuminating the workings of the American art market, this study fills a gaping lacuna in the history of nineteenth-century US art. Kimberly A. Orcutt draws from the American Art-Union’s records as well as in-depth contextual research to track the organization’s decisive impact that set the direction of the country’s paintings, sculpture, and engravings for well over a decade. Forged in cultural crosscurrents of utopianism and skepticism, the American Art-Union’s demise can be traced to its nature as an attempt to create and control the complex system that the early nineteenth-century art world represented. This study breaks the organization’s activities into their major components to offer a structural rather than chronological narrative that follows mounting tensions to their inevitable end. The institution was undone not by dramatic outward events or the character of its leadership but by the character of its utopianist plan.
Author : Rachel N. Klein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251944
A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth century From the antebellum era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed that aesthetic taste could foster national unity and assuage urban conflicts; by the 1880s such hopes had faded, and the taste for art assumed more personal connotations associated with consumption and domestic decoration. Art Wars chronicles three protracted public battles that marked this transformation. The first battle began in 1849 and resulted in the downfall of the American Art-Union, the most popular and influential art institution in North America at mid-century. The second erupted in 1880 over the Metropolitan Museum's massive collection of Cypriot antiquities, which had been plundered and sold to its trustees by the man who became the museum's first paid director. The third escalated in the mid-1880s and forced the Metropolitan Museum to open its doors on Sunday—the only day when working people were able to attend. In chronicling these disputes, Rachel N. Klein considers cultural fissures that ran much deeper than the specific complaints that landed protagonists in court. New York's major nineteenth-century art institutions came under intense scrutiny not only because Americans invested them with moral and civic consequences but also because they were part and parcel of explosive processes associated with the rise of industrial capitalism. Elite New Yorkers spearheaded the creation of the Art-Union and the Metropolitan, but those institutions became enmeshed in popular struggles related to slavery, immigration, race, industrial production, and the rights of working people. Art Wars examines popular engagement with New York's art institutions and illuminates the changing cultural role of art exhibition over the course of the nineteenth century.
Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195140620
This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an outspoken new generation of "ultra-democratic" writers entered the fray, staking out positions on politics, literature, art, and any other territory they could annex. They called themselves Young America--and they proclaimed a "Manifest Destiny" to push back frontiers in every category of achievement. Their swagger found a natural home in New York City, already bursting at the seams and ready to take on the world. Young America's mouthpiece was the Democratic Review, a highly influential magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review offered a fresh voice in political journalism, and sponsored young writers like Hawthorne and Whitman early in their careers. Melville, too, was influenced by Young America, and provided a running commentary on its many excesses. Despite brilliant promise, the movement fell apart in the 1850s, leaving its original leaders troubled over the darker destiny they had ushered in. Their ambitious generation had failed to rewrite history as promised. Instead, their perpetual agitation helped set the stage for the Civil War. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City is without question the most complete examination of this captivating and original movement. It also provides the first published biography of its leader, John O'Sullivan, one of America's great rhetoricians. Edward L. Widmer enriches his unique volume by offering a new theory of Manifest Destiny as part of a broader movement of intellectual expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Western Art Union (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433100966146
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : American Art-Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044039164637
Author : Jochen Wierich
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271050324
"Explores history painting in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Includes the work of artists such as Daniel Huntington, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Eastman Johnson"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108363821
Author : Mary Bartlett Cowdrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UOM:39015005612166
Author : American Art-Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101068579356
Author : Evan Robert Neely
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040025802
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiated, forming the basis for an ideal of the human and the nonhuman world that is still with us. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving the fields of visual culture, political economy, histories of racial identity, and ecocritical studies, the book examines the work of seminal figures in a variety of literary and artistic disciplines and puts the visual culture of the United States at the center of intellectual trends that have enormous implications for contemporary cultural practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, American studies, environmental studies/ecocriticism, critical race theory, and semiotics.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Lauretta Dimmick,Donna J. Hassler
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : 9780870999147
Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780870999574
Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
