Author: Janice Gayle Schimmelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A Checklist of European Treatises on Art and Essays on Aesthetics Available in America Through 1815
Author: Janice Gayle Schimmelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A Checklist of European Treatises on Art and Essays on Aesthetics Available in America Through 1815
Author: Janice G. Schimmelman
Publisher: Amer Antiquarian Society
ISBN: 9780912296616
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Amer Antiquarian Society
ISBN: 9780912296616
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
American Picturesque
Author: John Conron
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042732
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"American Picturesque offers a magisterial account of the concept of the picturesque and its manifestation in many aspects of nineteenth-century American life. Conron's study ranges over the entire phenomenon, tracing the development of the picturesque aesthetic in genre, landscape, and topographical painting, rural cottages and villas."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042732
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"American Picturesque offers a magisterial account of the concept of the picturesque and its manifestation in many aspects of nineteenth-century American life. Conron's study ranges over the entire phenomenon, tracing the development of the picturesque aesthetic in genre, landscape, and topographical painting, rural cottages and villas."--BOOK JACKET.
The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860
Author: Irma B. Jaffe
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823212491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Annotation. Sixteen essays examine aspects of American art that owe a debt to Italy and Italian artists. A central theme is the tension between perceptions of Italy as a mythic presence, the visual incarnation of spirit, and a contrasting ambivalence felt by many Americans about the cultural ties binding them to Europe despite their political independence. With some 200 illustrations, 36 in color. Not indexed. Pre-publication price, $49.95, until 12-31-90. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823212491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Annotation. Sixteen essays examine aspects of American art that owe a debt to Italy and Italian artists. A central theme is the tension between perceptions of Italy as a mythic presence, the visual incarnation of spirit, and a contrasting ambivalence felt by many Americans about the cultural ties binding them to Europe despite their political independence. With some 200 illustrations, 36 in color. Not indexed. Pre-publication price, $49.95, until 12-31-90. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
American Painters on Technique
Author: Lance Mayer
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A study of an important but anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, it includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; the application of 'toning' layers; and more.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A study of an important but anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, it includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; the application of 'toning' layers; and more.
Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818Ð1823
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The State as a Work of Art
Author: Eric Slauter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226761959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate and monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial nature of the state, these early politicians believed the culture of a people should inform the development of their governing rules and bodies. The author explores these central ideas in this account of the origins and meanings of the U.S. Constitution. He reveals the cultural histories upon which the document rests, highlights the voices of ordinary people, and considers how the artifice of the state was challenged in its effort to sustain inalienable natural rights alongside slavery and to achieve political secularization at a moment of growing religious expression.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226761959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate and monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial nature of the state, these early politicians believed the culture of a people should inform the development of their governing rules and bodies. The author explores these central ideas in this account of the origins and meanings of the U.S. Constitution. He reveals the cultural histories upon which the document rests, highlights the voices of ordinary people, and considers how the artifice of the state was challenged in its effort to sustain inalienable natural rights alongside slavery and to achieve political secularization at a moment of growing religious expression.
Describing Early America
Author: Pamela Regis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Regis makes an important contribution to the understanding of eighteenth-century American ideas."--
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Regis makes an important contribution to the understanding of eighteenth-century American ideas."--
Citizen Spectator
Author: Wendy Bellion
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783890X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783890X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
American Writers and the Picturesque Tour
Author: Beth L. Lueck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135813590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Explores a beloved genre Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. Offers new perspectives American writers adapted the picturesque to express their nationalistic sentiments; picturesque discourse offered a flexible series of conventions that enable writers to celebrate the places, people, and legends that set America apart. This volume demonstrates the vital role of this genre in the formation of national literary taste and national culture and offers fresh and exciting perspectives on the topic. Includes index. Also includes maps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135813590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Explores a beloved genre Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. Offers new perspectives American writers adapted the picturesque to express their nationalistic sentiments; picturesque discourse offered a flexible series of conventions that enable writers to celebrate the places, people, and legends that set America apart. This volume demonstrates the vital role of this genre in the formation of national literary taste and national culture and offers fresh and exciting perspectives on the topic. Includes index. Also includes maps.