This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier. Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and, works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists' aspirations and viewers' expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs.
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70 black-&-white illustrations + 135 colour images
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Höhe: 305 mm
Breite: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-15508-2 (9780300155082)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
H. Barbara Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margaret C. Conrads is Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Bruce Robertson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator at the Center for the Art of the Americas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
