American art to 1900 : a documentary history /
From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words--painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The colonial era : Art in an age of Puritanism
- Dissenting opinions: alternatives to Puritan practice
- Advertisements
- Early responses to portraits
- Pioneering artists
- Taste and theory
- Poems on portraits
- Training and the lure of Europe
- 2. Revolution and early republic : Defining art
- Citizens: documents on portrait painting
- Artistic identity, artistic choices
- The establishment of artistic categories : Landscape ; Still life ; Genre
- Early institutions : Philadelphia ; New York ; Boston
- 3. Antebellum America: values and institutions : Art in a democratic nation
- Building institutions
- Collectors and patrons
- 4. Antebellum America: landscape, life, and spectacle : The American landscape : Literary landscapes ; Romantic nature ; American sites: tourist literature ; Transcendental nature ; Nature, wild and tame
- American life
- Artists of color and the representation of race
- Artists: advice and careers
- 5. Antebellum America: public art and popular art : The U.S. government as patron: decoration of the capitol
- Art in public
- Popular art, edification, and entertainment
- 6. Antebellum America: expanding horizons : International travel and exchange
- Manifest destiny
- Manufacturing history
- Art on and of the frontier : The noble savage/vanishing race ; Western life
- Frederic Church's sublime landscapes : Heart of the Andes
- 7. The 1860's : Taking stock
- Landscape at a crossroads: nature as seen through telescope and microscope
- Civil war
- Race
- Art after conflict
- 8. The gilded age: life and landscape at home : Nationalism and home subjects
- Modes of realism
- Race and representation
- Landscapes: east and west : The old northeast ; The new west
- 9. The gilded age: art worlds and art markets : Art on the market
- Studio life and art society
- 10. The gilded age: education, institutions, and exhibitions : Education : Boston ; Chicago ; New York ; Philadelphia ; San Francisco
- Art institutions
- The Philadelphia centennial and the colonial revival
- 11. Cosmopolitan dialogues : Internationalism
- Art education : Germany ; France
- The nude ; Arch-expatriates
- New women in art
- 12. New media, new tastemakers, new masses : Critical voices
- The little media : Watercolor ; Pastel ; Etching ; Wood engraving
- Popular art and its critique
- In the magazines: the new illustrators
- Amateur or artist?: Debates on photography
- 13. Beauty, vision and modernity : The aesthetic movement
- Impressionism: critical reception
- Impressionism: American practices
- Impressionism: eclectic practices
- Art colonies
- Beyond the threshold: visionaries and dreamers
- 14. Imperial America : The world's Columbian Exposition
- Mural painting
- Public sculpture
- Retrospectives and prospects.