A Short History of Painting in America
Author | : Edgar Preston Richardson |
Publisher | : Thomas Y. Crowell |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edgar Preston Richardson |
Publisher | : Thomas Y. Crowell |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Johns |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300057546 |
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 | : Samuel Isham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eleanor Jones Harvey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-12-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300187335 |
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.
Author | : Steven Biel |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780393059120 |
Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.
Author | : Jochen Wierich |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271050322 |
"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 | : Matthew Baigell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Painting, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew Baigell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2018-02-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0429982356 |
This clear, thorough, and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text. Although some determining factors in American art are considered, Matthew Baigell views the rich and diverse achievements of American art as the result of the efforts and talents of a pluralistic society rather than as fitting into a particular mold.This edition includes corrections and revisions to the text, an updated bibliography, and 13 new illustrations.
Author | : James Thomas Flexner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art and mythology |
ISBN | : 9780520249875 |
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.