Nineteenth-century American Art by Barbara Groseclose
Painting and sculpture flourished in nineteenth-century America and saw the rise of self-taught travelling artists and professional artists producing works for a growing number of wealthy patrons. This innovative introduction examines the profession of the artist alongside the reception of their work by nineteenth-century art audiences. Works of art by familiar names such as Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer are discussed in detail within the larger arena of visual culture, as are key works by recently discovered artists such as Harriet Hosmer. The thematic approach focuses on portraiture, landscape painting, the American West, commemorative art, and goes on to examine the ways in which painters responded to major social and economic changes resulting from the rapid change from an agriculturally-based former colony to an industrialized imperial power with an evolving democracy. Uniquely, Barbara Groseclose treats the embeddedness of American Art in its European heritage as continual and salutary, rather than intermittent and oppositional, and also explores the changing interpretations of art of this period.Professor of Art History at Ohio State University, Barbara Groseclose writes about eighteenth and nineteenth-century art and literature; her most recent book is British Sculpture and the Company Raj: Church Monuments and Public Statuary in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay to 1858 (1995). In 1994 she was
appointed a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Utrecht.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192842251 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192842250 |
| Title | Nineteenth-century American Art |
| Author | Barbara Groseclose |
| Series | Oxford History Of Art |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-09-14 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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