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Author : Hiram Powers
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Hiram Powers' Paradise Lost written by Hiram Powers and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846735
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)
Download or read book A Measure of Perfection written by Charles Colbert and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developmen
Author : Richard P. Wunder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor written by Richard P. Wunder and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard P. Wunder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hiram Powers: Catalogue of works written by Richard P. Wunder and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the life and career of Hiram Powers (1805-73), the first American-born sculptor to win international fame. Drawing mainly on his correspondence, volume one focuses on the artist's life; and volume two consists of a catalogue of his work and contains more than 225 illustrations. Corrects numerous errors of fact that have been perpetuated about Powers.
Author : James Carson Webster
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874132029
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Erastus D. Palmer written by James Carson Webster and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with Palmer's life and career, the development and character of his work, his ideas about art, and contemporary comments on his work. An annotated catalog of Palmer's sculpture and appendixes that contain his writings on art and letters are included. (American Art Senes)
Author : Maurie D. McInnis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625997
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston written by Maurie D. McInnis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America. While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served. The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.
Author : Caitlin Meehye Beach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520343263
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery written by Caitlin Meehye Beach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : "Within a few steps of the spot" : art in an age of racial capitalism -- Grasping images : antislavery and the sculptural -- "The mute language of the marble" : slavery and Hiram Powers' Greek slave -- Sentiment, manufactured : John Bell and the abolitionist image under empire -- Relief work : Edmonia Lewis and the poetics of plaster -- Between liberty and emancipation : Francesco Pezzicar's The Abolition of slavery -- Coda : "Sculptured dream of liberty".
Author : Albert Boime
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226063372
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848 written by Albert Boime and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art for art's sake. Art created in pursuit of personal expression. In Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, Albert Boime rejects these popular modern notions and suggests that history—not internal drive or expressive urge—as the dynamic force that shapes art. This volume focuses on the astonishing range of art forms currently understood to fall within the broad category of Romanticism. Drawing on visual media and popular imagery of the time, this generously illustrated work examines the art of Romanticism as a reaction to the social and political events surrounding it. Boime reinterprets canonical works by such politicized artists as Goya, Delacroix, Géricault, Friedrich, and Turner, framing their work not by personality but by its sociohistorical context. Boime's capacious approach and scope allows him to incorporate a wide range of perspectives into his analysis of Romantic art, including Marxism, social history, gender identity, ecology, structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory, a reach that parallels the work of contemporary cultural historians and theorists such as Edward Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederic Jameson, and T. J. Clark. Boime ultimately establishes that art serves the interests and aspirations of the cultural bourgeoisie. In grounding his arguments on their work and its scope and influence, he elucidates how all artists are inextricably linked to history. This book will be used widely in art history courses and exert enormous influence on cultural studies as well.
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Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Quiver written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
Author : Sirpa Salenius
Publisher : il prato publishing house srl
ISBN 13 : 8863360723
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)
Download or read book SCULPTORS, PAINTERS AND ITALY written by Sirpa Salenius and published by il prato publishing house srl. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Sculptors, Painters, and Italy: Italian Influence on Nineteenth-Century American Art examine the influence of Italy in the works of nineteenth-century American sculptors and painters. The focus is on their experience in Italy, their relationship with local workmen, their contact with Italian artists such as the Tuscan Macchiaioli, and the impact of their Italian experience on the formation of American art. The papers in the volume discuss such artists as Horatio Greenough, Thomas Cole, Hiram Powers, Henry Kirke Brown, Elihu Vedder, Edmonia Lewis, and John Singer Sargent. The essays are written by scholars from American universities and museums, and they appear in the following order: Elise Madeleine Ciregna, “’An Example in the Right Direction’: Horatio Greenough’s Life and Work in Italy”; John F. McGuigan Jr, “’A Painter’s Paradise’: Thomas Cole and His Transformative Experience in Florence, 1831-1832”; Rebecca Reynolds, “’No Ordinary Hands’: Hiram Powers’ Artistic and Professionally Related Family”; Karen Lemmey, “’I would just as soon be in Albany as Florence,’ Henry Kirke Brown and the American Expatriate Colonies in Italy, 1842-1846”; Mary K. McGuigan, “A Garden of Lost Opportunities: Elihu Vedder in Florence, 1857-1860”, Marilyn Richardson, “Friends and Colleagues: Edmonia Lewis and Her Italian Circle”; and Kathleen Lawrence, “John Singer Sargent, Italy, and the American Paradox.”
Author : Liza Kirwin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061150126
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Artists in Their Studios written by Liza Kirwin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, this book provides insight to the work of American artists and their unique studio spaces. Over 100 photographs with letters and other primary source materials (notes, sketchbook pages, invitations, etc.) offer an intimate perspective on the work and studios of over 100 significant American artists from the late 19th century to the 1970s. ARTISTS IN THEIR STUDIOS shows the evolution of studio spaces and by extension the public/private personae of the artists. It also informs the public about the holdings of the Smithsonian's Archives and creates an awareness of the value of these primary sources as historical evidence.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999141
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865 written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204999
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Haunted Visions written by Charles Colbert and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age. Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the evolution of modern attitudes toward creativity. He argues that Spiritualism made a singular contribution to the sanctification of art that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The faith maintained that spiritual energies could reside in objects, and thus works of art could be appreciated not only for what they illustrated but also as vessels of the psychic vibrations their creators impressed into them. Such beliefs sanctified both the making and collecting of art in an era when Darwinism and Positivism were increasingly disenchanting the world and the efforts to represent it. In this context, Spiritualism endowed the artist's profession with the prestige of a religious calling; in doing so, it sought not to replace religion with art, but to make art a site where religion happened.
Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691009476
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves written by Kirk Savage and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Historian Kirk Savage explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was recognized in public--specifically in the sculptural monuments that dominated streets, parks, and town squares in 19th-century America. 67 photos.
Author : Andrew Oliver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674691520
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife written by Andrew Oliver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.
Author : Frederick G. Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americans written by Frederick G. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The New England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
