Trouble in Paradise
Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art
Published on 7. November 2024
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-90-04-71151-8 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called "Luminism," the rise of the American art museum, the historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1057 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-71151-8 (9789004711518)
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Alan Wallach, Ph.D. (1973), is the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at the College of William and Mary.
Content
Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1 Circa 1977: State of the Field
1 John Wilmerding's American Art (1977)
2 Trouble in Paradise (1977)
Part 2 Six Critical Museum Studies
3 Rereading an anti-catalog: Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998)
4 'Norman Rockwell' at the Guggenheim (2003)
5 The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict (2006)
6 The Unethical Art Museum (2006)
7 Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B.Durand's Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008)
8 The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010)
Part 3 Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School
9 Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993)
10 Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994)
11 Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as Anti-Pastoral (2002)
12 Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007)
13 Rethinking 'Luminism': Taste, Class, and Aestheticizing Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011)
14 Patronage and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023)
Part 4 Short Takes
15 Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005)
16 Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979)
17 Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991)
18 Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022)
Part 5 Historiographical Reflections
19 Meyer Schapiro's Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997)
20 Oliver Larkin's Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001)
21 On the Social History of American Art (2015)
22 Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015)
23 Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017)
24 'A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject' (2019)
Coda
Capitalism and the History of United States Art (2023)
Bibliography
Index
Copyright Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1 Circa 1977: State of the Field
1 John Wilmerding's American Art (1977)
2 Trouble in Paradise (1977)
Part 2 Six Critical Museum Studies
3 Rereading an anti-catalog: Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998)
4 'Norman Rockwell' at the Guggenheim (2003)
5 The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict (2006)
6 The Unethical Art Museum (2006)
7 Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B.Durand's Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008)
8 The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010)
Part 3 Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School
9 Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993)
10 Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994)
11 Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as Anti-Pastoral (2002)
12 Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007)
13 Rethinking 'Luminism': Taste, Class, and Aestheticizing Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011)
14 Patronage and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023)
Part 4 Short Takes
15 Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005)
16 Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979)
17 Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991)
18 Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022)
Part 5 Historiographical Reflections
19 Meyer Schapiro's Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997)
20 Oliver Larkin's Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001)
21 On the Social History of American Art (2015)
22 Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015)
23 Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017)
24 'A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject' (2019)
Coda
Capitalism and the History of United States Art (2023)
Bibliography
Index