Young America

Young America
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 0300106203
ISBN-13 : 9780300106206
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Young America by : Claire Perry

A delightful look at how nineteenth-century American artists portrayed children and childhood

Art Work

Art Work
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780812291742
ISBN-13 : 0812291743
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Art Work by : April F. Masten

"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thing to daughters of that period."—The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist. She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial panics and civil war, thousands of young women moved to New York City between 1850 and 1880 to pursue careers as professional artists. Many of them trained with masters at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women, where they were imbued with the Unity of Art ideal, an aesthetic ideology that made no distinction between fine and applied arts or male and female abilities. These women became painters, designers, illustrators, engravers, colorists, and art teachers. They were encouraged by some of the era's best-known figures, among them Tribune editor Horace Greeley and mechanic/philanthropist Peter Cooper, who blamed the poverty and dependence of both women and workers on the separation of mental and manual labor in industrial society. The most acclaimed artists among them owed their success to New York's conspicuously egalitarian art institutions and the rise of the illustrated press. Yet within a generation their names, accomplishments, and the aesthetic ideal that guided them virtually disappeared from the history of American art. Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York recaptures the unfamiliar cultural landscape in which spirited young women, daring social reformers, and radical artisans succeeded in reuniting art and industry. In this interdisciplinary study, April F. Masten situates the aspirations and experience of these forgotten women artists, and the value of art work itself, at the heart of the capitalist transformation of American society.

Nineteenth Century Art

Nineteenth Century Art
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 050023793X
ISBN-13 : 9780500237939
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Nineteenth Century Art by : Stephen Eisenman

"The revised and expanded edition of Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History embraces many aspects of the so-called 'new' art history - attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism - while at the same time recovering the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era's best art. Indeed, the authors insist that there is a profound sympathy between these new perspectives and the art under examination. For it was nineteenth-century artists who first addressed the issues that preoccupy audiences and scholars today: the relation between popular and elite culture, the legacy of the Enlightenment, the question of the canon, and the representation of workers, women and non-whites."--BOOK JACKET.

America

America
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Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015003424992
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis America by : Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

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.

19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture

19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9780870990069
ISBN-13 : 0870990063
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis 19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Chiefly illustrated catalog of an exhibition held in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 16 through September 7, 1970.

The Civil War and American Art

The Civil War and American Art
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780300187335
ISBN-13 : 0300187335
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Civil War and American Art by : Eleanor Jones Harvey

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century

Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781351004169
ISBN-13 : 1351004166
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century by : Matthew C. Potter

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. The case studies provide not just an account of the pursuit of history in art within Western Europe but also examples from beyond that sphere. These cover canonical and conventional examples of history painting as well as more inclusive, ‘popular’ and vernacular visual cultural phenomena. General themes explored include the problematics internal to the theory and practice of academic history painting and historical genre painting, including compositional devices and the authenticity of artefacts depicted; relationships of power and purpose in historical art; the use of historical art for alternative Liberal and authoritarian ideals; the international cross-fertilisation of ideas about historical art; and exploration of the diverse influences of socioeconomic and geopolitical factors. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the histories of nineteenth-century art and culture.

American Genre Painting

American Genre Painting
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0300057547
ISBN-13 : 9780300057546
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis American Genre Painting by : Elizabeth Johns

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.

Picturing a Nation

Picturing a Nation
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 0300057326
ISBN-13 : 9780300057324
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Picturing a Nation by : David M. Lubin

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.

Important Information Inside

Important Information Inside
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014426483
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Important Information Inside by : John Wilmerding

Leven en werk van de Amerikaanse schilder John Frederick Peto (1854-1907)