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The Ethereal Canvas: Exploring the Realm of American Tonalist Art

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 161

The Ethereal Canvas: Exploring the Realm of American Tonalist Art is the definitive guide to the Tonalist movement in American art, providing a comprehensive exploration of its origins, techniques, and enduring legacy. This richly illustrated volume delves into the world of Tonalist painters, capturing the essence of their atmospheric landscapes and evocative use of light. Through detailed analysis and captivating storytelling, The Ethereal Canvas: Exploring the Realm of American Tonalist Art unveils the key characteristics of Tonalism, including its focus on subtle gradations of tone, harmonious use of color, and exploration of nature as both subject and symbol. Readers will gain a deep appreciation for the techniques and aesthetics that defined this beloved movement. Beyond its artistic merits, The Ethereal Canvas: Exploring the Realm of American Tonalist Art also examines the cultural and historical significance of Tonalism. It traces the movement's origins in the Hudson River School and its later development under the influence of Luminism. The book explores how Tonalist artists reflected the nation's growing sense of place and its evolving relationship with the natural world, ...

¿Qué es filosofía?

Número de Páginas: 246

«Este libro está dedicado a la rehabilitación de la filosofía. Trata de explicar con detalle la verdadera naturaleza del conocimiento filosófico, el verdadero objeto de la filosofía, su dignidad epistemológica y su vitalidad existencial. También esperamos que pueda llegar a ser un arma eficaz para derribar la fortaleza de los que hacen un fetiche de la ciencia, y sirva para volver a abrir las puertas al auténtico universo, al cosmos en toda su altura, anchura y profundidad. Este libro pretende exponer el papel clásico de la filosofía en la vida del hombre. El autor se da plena cuenta de la oposición que el libro va a encontrar. Prevé las sonrisas irónicas en los rostros de muchos positivistas, que considerarán este trabajo como expresión de una mentalidad obsoleta y reaccionaria. espera ser condenado por aquellos que rinden culto a la ciencia, que considerarán este libro anacrónico, ingenuo y acientífico».

A Concise History Of American Painting And Sculpture

Autor: Matthew Baigell

Número de Páginas: 462

This clear, thorough, and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text. Although some determining factors in American art are considered, Matthew Baigell views the rich and diverse achievements of American art as the result of the efforts and talents of a pluralistic society rather than as fitting into a particular mold.This edition includes corrections and revisions to the text, an updated bibliography, and 13 new illustrations.

Generational Key to History

Autor: Michael A. Susko

Número de Páginas: 482

Generational Key to History: Tracing Phases From Ancient Egypt to America This work explores the use of a time chart based on generations as a way to understand history. A sole reliance on yearly dating tends to obscure the historical reality and deter us from further exploration. However, patterns are revealed if we number generations, and we become intrigued by the connections and hypotheses raised. The author uses 15-year intervals to date events and mark when people turn 30 and tend to enter history. The 15-year generational interval was first used by the medieval historian, Bede, and later advocated by Ortega E Gasset, a leading Spanish philosopher of the 20th century. In brief, the phases of history found are: 1) A partly invisible beginning phase; 0-15 generations; 2) An establishment phase at 15/20 generations; 3) A consolidating and opening up stage at 30 generations; 4) A crisis and creativity phase at 40 generations; 5) An empire and inclusionary phase at 50 generations; and 6) Renewal or rigidification phase at the 60 generational node. Importantly, special attention is given to the often neglected 30th generational period, in which an openness to beauty and light...

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture

Autor: Allison Lee Palmer

Número de Páginas: 416

Romanticism is multifaceted, and a wide range of nostalgic, emotional, and exotic concerns were expressed in such styles and movements as the Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Orientalism, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some movements were regional and subject-specific, such as the Hudson River School of landscape painting in the United States and the German Nazarene movement, which focused primarily on religious art in Rome. The movements range across Western Europe and include the United States. This dictionary will provide a fuller historical context for Romanticism and enable the reader to identify major trends and explore artists of the period. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic art.

The Color of Mood: American Tonalism, 1880-1910

Autor: Wanda M. Corn

Número de Páginas: 74

A Rosetta Key for U.S. History

Autor: Michael A. Susko

Número de Páginas: 217

This work explores a generational history from America's Colonial period to the United States of contemporary times. A novel historical approach will rely on generational markers every 15th year, rather than yearly astronomical dates. This method will make history more accessible and its patterns more apparent. Identified from cultures presented in an earlier volume, the phasings are: 1) "Invisible" Beginnings; 2) Establishment and Testing; 3) Novel Consolidation and Opening Up, 4) Crisis and Creativity; 5) Empire and Inclusion, and 6) Rigidification or Renewal. This history does not seek to hide or obscure the shadow side of America, nor does it fail to present beauty and light, especially during the 30s generational phase. One discovery prompted by this generational time chart was to more fully consider the importance of New Spain in understanding U.S. history. A second and related theme is inclusion of the Indigenous, whose influence extends to all phases of American history. Come journey with us and experience historical events and people's lives generation by generation, and see how they fit into historical phases. Such an awareness, the author contends, will help us to make...

American Art Pottery

Autor: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen , Martin Eidelberg , Adrienne Spinozzi

Número de Páginas: 392

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} At the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Celebrated ceramists such as George E. Ohr, Hugh C. Robertson, and M. Louise McLaughlin, and prize-winning potteries, including Grueby and Rookwood, harnessed the potential of the medium to create an astonishing range of dynamic forms and experimental glazes. Spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1950s, this volume chronicles the history of American art pottery through more than three hundred works in the outstanding collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. In a series of fascinating chapters, the authors place these works in the context of turn-of-the-century commerce, design, and social history. Driven to innovate and at times fiercely competitive, some ceramists strove to discover and patent new styles and aesthetics, while others pursued more utopian aims, establishing artist communities that promoted education and handwork as therapy. Written by a team of esteemed scholars and copiously illustrated with sumptuous images, this book imparts...

Willa Cather and Aestheticism

Autor: Ann Moseley , Sarah Cheney Watson

Número de Páginas: 257

In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches—derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between art and religion—this collection will increase our understanding of Cather’s aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.

Generational Mapping Through Phases

Autor: Michael A. Susko

Número de Páginas: 613

In Generational Mapping Through Phases: Bridging Ancient Civilizations, U.S., and Ancestral Pueblo History (Complete Three-Volume Edition), the author presents a novel approach to understanding history through the lens of generational mapping, which reveals distinct phases. This comprehensive work explores the rise, transformation, and legacy of six important historical traditions: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Rome, Medieval-Modern Europe, U.S. History, and the history of the Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. Divided into three volumes, the series introduces the theory that ancient civilizations, U.S. history, and Indigenous histories—long viewed through static or compartmentalized frameworks—can be studied instead as dynamic, evolving processes marked by generational phases. In brief they are: 1) "Invisible Beginnings"; 2) Establishment and Testing; 3) Consolidation and "Opening Up" to outside influences; 4) Crisis and Creativity; 5) Empire and Inclusion; and 6) Renewal or Rigidification. The work redefines how we engage with the past, weaving together archaeology, anthropology, and historical analysis to map the interconnectedness of civilizations ...

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism

Autor: Keith Newlin

Número de Páginas: 733

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it a period, usually placed as occurring after the Civil War and concluding somewhere around the onset of World War I? This volume aims to widen the scope of study beyond mere definition, however, by expanding the boundaries of the subject through essays that reconsider and enlarge upon such questions. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism aims to take stock of the scholarly work in the area and map out paths for future directions of study. The Handbook offers 35 vibrant and original essays of new interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. Contributors here tease out the workings of a...

Clarence H. White and His World

Autor: Anne Mccauley

Número de Páginas: 409

Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photography Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White’s contributions, including his groundbreaking aesthetic experiments, his commitment to the ideals of American socialism, and his embrace of the expanding fields of photographic book and fashion illustration, celebrity portraiture, and advertising. Based on extensive archival research, the book challenges the idea of an abrupt rupture between prewar, soft-focus idealizing photography and postwar “modernism” to paint a more nuanced picture of American culture in the Progressive era. Clarence H. White and His World begins with the artist’s early work in Ohio, which shares with the nascent Arts and Crafts movement the advocacy of hand production, closeness to nature, and the simple life. White’s involvement with the Photo-Secession and his move to New York in 1906 mark a shift in ...

American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

Autor: Kathleen A. Foster , Philadelphia Museum Of Art

Número de Páginas: 497

The fascinating story of the transformation of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925 The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of impressionists and modernists. By the 1920s many would claim it as "the American medium." This engaging and comprehensive book tells the definitive story of the metamorphosis of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925, identifying the artist constituencies and social forces that drove the new popularity of the medium. The major artists of the movement - Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, William Trost Richards, Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, Charles Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Charles Demuth, and many others - are represented with lavish color illustrations. The result is a fresh and beautiful look at watercolor's central place in American art and culture.

Whistler to Cassatt

Autor: Timothy J. Standring

Número de Páginas: 130

A revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in France In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American artists flocked to France in search of instruction, critical acclaim, and patronage. Some, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt, became highly regarded in the French press, advancing their careers on both sides of the Atlantic. Others, notably William Merritt Chase, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing--part of the association known as The Ten--found success working in the style of the French Impressionists, while Henry Ossawa Tanner, Cecilia Beaux, and Elizabeth Jane Gardner focused on genre and history subjects. This richly illustrated volume offers a sophisticated examination of cultural and aesthetic exchange as it highlights many figures, including artists of color and women, who were left out of previous histories. Celebrated scholars from both American and French institutions detail the complex history and diverse styles of these expatriate artists--styles ranging from conservative academic modes to Tonalism--and provide original perspectives on...

Tratado de las supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas

Autor: Hernando Ruiz De Alarcón

Número de Páginas: 141

El Tratado de las supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas que hoy viven entre los indios naturales de esta Nueva España contiene los apuntes de un viaje impresionante por el norte de México en el siglo XVI, en el que Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, hermano del dramaturgo Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, se acerca a las costumbres nativas. Para escribir su libro, Alarcón recorrió el golfo de California y alcanzó el río Colorado. Tuvo contacto con los aborígenes de la zona y compiló abundante información sobre sus prácticas y costumbres guerreras, religiosas e incluso sexuales que aparecieron en el Tratado, publicado en 1629. La finalidad del tratado era más bien combatir como fiel guardián de la fe y la moral católica, más que catalogar y conocer las costumbres, idolatrías y supersticiones que se practicaban en el territorio de la Nueva España y que subsistían al margen de la obra evangelizadora de los monjes. Mi intento con esta obra, no es hacer una exquisita pesquisa de las costumbres de los naturales desta Tierra, que requería una obra muy larga y muchas divisiones: y no sé para que fuese hoy provechoso semejante trabajo. Solo pretendo abrir senda a los ministros de los...

Classical American Philosophy

Autor: Rebecca L. Farinas

Número de Páginas: 265

In Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. It is a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and through case studies such as the friendship between Alain Locke and the biologist E.E. Just and the collaboration between Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead, Farinas provides a new insight into these thinkers' ideas. Her new perspective allows her to move beyond relational aesthetics to consider these theorists' phenomenological, metaphysical, religious and cosmological ideas and reapply them to the modern world. Indeed, the partnerships she examines have proved especially valuable to newer philosophical fields like value theory, ethics, pedagogy and semiotics. Her links between art and science also provide new vantage points on our society's continuing artistic endeavours and technological advances and introduce an exciting new perspective on early American philosophy and its ensuing movements.

Tonalism

Autor: William H. Gerdts , Grand Central Art Galleries

Número de Páginas: 100

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century

Autor: Barbara Novak

Número de Páginas: 337

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature.Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Autor: Ernesto Capello , Julia B. Rosenbaum

Número de Páginas: 374

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic ...

American Painters on Technique

Autor: Lance Mayer , Gay Myers

Número de Páginas: 316

"How paintings were made--in the most literal sense--is an important but largely unknown aspect of the story of American art. This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is based on descriptions of the materials and methods that painters used, as found in artists' notebooks, painting manuals, magazines, suppliers' catalogues, letters, diaries, books, and interviews. In interpreting this evidence, the authors have made use of their experience as conservators who have treated many important American paintings."--Book jacket.

Nineteenth-century American Art

Autor: Barbara S. Groseclose

Número de Páginas: 254

"Many well-known artists, including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, and lesser-known artists like Harriet Hosmer are closely examined, as is the art world of the time. In addition to discussing the free movement of American visual culture between 'high' and 'low', Barbara Groseclose interweaves nineteenth-century art criticism with current art history, to create a fascinating insight into the changing interpretations of American art of this period."--BOOK JACKET.

Comprehending Cinema

Autor: Scott Macdonald

Número de Páginas: 571

Comprehending Cinema is a collection of in-depth interviews and panoramic essays that models a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our overwhelming modern mediascape. The 18 interviewees featured in this publication include Oscar-winning documentarians Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin; Dean Fleischer Camp, whose Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was an internet smash, then an Oscar nominee; canonical filmmakers Guy Maddin and Su Friedrich, still building on remarkable careers; renowned poet (and cineaste) John Ashbery; Irish independent Tadhg O'Sullivan who is entranced by the moon; indefatigable cine-historian, Paul Cronin; LA artist Jennifer West, who collaborated with 11,500 visitors on New York City's High Line to produce a new kind of City Symphony; Penny Lane, whose documentary films continually surprise; a collaborative filmmaking team who provide an immersive motion study of a crowd taking selfies with the Mona Lisa; cine-explorers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel; master of the cine-archive Bill Morrison; cine-scientist Erin Espelie; video-essayist Chloé Galibert-Laîné; and the...

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

Autor: Ayako Ono

Número de Páginas: 159

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Studies of Japonisme have been dominated by searching out relationships of influence between artworks–trying to identify which specific works influenced a particular artist. Ono argues that a more holistic understanding of 'spillover effects' is necessary in fully comprehending the nuances of these relationships. She bases this argument on documents and works of art in the context of globalisation, looking at the relationships between James McNeill Whistler and others with their contemporaries in the Japanese artistic and literary worlds. This was a more complex two-way exchange than is often appreciated, with Western artists taking inspiration from (to them) new Japanese styles, while Japanese artists and writers were trying to craft a 'modern', more western-influences style to reflect the modern nation of Japan emerging onto the world stage after centuries of relative isolation. A fascinating analysis of the role of globalisation and cultural exchange in the development of new and hybrid artforms, that will be essential reading for scholars...

American Studies

Autor: Jack Salzman

Número de Páginas: 888

This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

Autor: Ann Lee Morgan

Número de Páginas: 554

In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.

Pennsylvania Impressionism

Autor: William H. Gerdts , Sylvia Yount

Número de Páginas: 378

"This magnificent new book . . . has assembled a definitive collection of impressionistic works from the Bucks Country region of eastern Pennsylvania. . . . Excellent!"—Bloomsbury Review

Angels of Art: Women and Art in American Society, 1876Ð1914

Número de Páginas: 305

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Autor: El Roto

Número de Páginas: 113

El Roto ahonda en el espíritu negro de Goya en un libro que cartografía el alma de un artista universal a la vez que fotografía el abismo que habita en todos nosotros. El Roto firma en este libro un sentido homenaje a Goya, magistral observador del alma humana. Esta mirada personalísima ahonda en el espíritu negro del pintor español para ofrecernos un profundo examen sobre la persistencia de la estupidez terrenal. Convergen aquí las miradas intemporales de dos artistas entregados a hacer partícipe a la sociedad de sus críticas al comportamiento humano. Este singular libro en la trayectoria de El Roto reúne las ilustraciones que acompañan la exposición antológica que el Museo del Prado dedica en 2019 al pintor español, sumando otros quince dibujos escogidos por el autor para esta edición. A modo de catálogo, este libro se propone cartografiar el alma de un artista universal a la vez que fotografía el abismo que habita en cada ser humano. Reseñas: «No falla nunca, y nunca deja de ser admirable.» Antonio Muñoz Molina «Las escenas de El Roto poseen esta virtud: nos remiten a lo esencial y, de una sola ojeada, desbrozan el enredo y acceden al sentido.» Basilio...

American Impressionism and Realism

Autor: Helene Barbara Weinberg , Doreen Bolger , David Park Curry

Número de Páginas: 400

An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Education and Politics in the 1990s

Autor: Denis Lawton

Número de Páginas: 652

Examines the ideological differences between the education policies of the two main political parties in the UK and discusses the emergence of these differences within the context of the 1988 Education Reform Act. It also looks at the world-wide influence of the "New Right" politics on education.

American Paradise

Autor: Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Número de Páginas: 367

Traces the history of the Hudson River School of American painters, shows works by Church, Cole, and Inness, and describes the background of each painting.

Makers

Autor: Janet Koplos , Bruce Metcalf

Número de Páginas: 544

Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay, glass, wood, and metal--from its roots in nineteenth-century reform movements to the rich diversity of expression at the end of the twentieth century. More than four hundred illustrations complement this chronological exploration of the American craft tradition. Keeping as their main focus the objects and the makers, Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf offer a detailed analysis of seminal works and discussions of education, institutional support, and the philosophical underpinnings of craft. In a vivid and accessible narrative, they highlight the value of physical skill, examine craft as a force for moral reform, and consider the role of craft as an aesthetic alternative. Exploring craft's relationship to fine arts and design, Koplos and Metcalf foster a critical understanding of the field and help explain craft's place in contemporary culture. Makers will be an indispensable volume for craftspeople, curators, collectors, critics, historians, students, and anyone who is interested in American craft.

The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz

Autor: Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.) , Weston J. Naef

Número de Páginas: 546

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

Autor: Robert S. Levine

Número de Páginas: 281

This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.

Moved to Tears

Autor: Rebecca Bedell

Número de Páginas: 232

In this volume, Bedell examines received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, she argues that major American artists--from John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale in the eighteenth century and Asher Durand and Winslow Homer in the nineteenth to Henry Ossawa Tanner and Frank Lloyd Wright in the early twentieth--produced what was understood in their time as sentimental art: art intended to develop empathetic bonds and to express or elicit social affections, including sympathy, compassion, nostalgia, and patriotism.

Heritage Fine Art and Illustration Dallas Signature Auction Catalog #628

Autor: Ivy Press

Número de Páginas: 296

In Pursuit of Beauty

Autor: Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Número de Páginas: 513

"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.

Carl W. Peters

Autor: Richard H. Love , Carl William Peters

Número de Páginas: 962

Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.