Charles Willson Peale Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic

Name: Charles Willson Peale Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic
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ISBN: 9780520239609

ISBN-10: 0520239601

ISBN-13: 9780520239609

Edition: 2005

Authors: David C. Ward, Charles Willson Peale

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Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a staggeringly full and successful life. A portrait painter who produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconicThe Artist in His Museum,Peale was also a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. His many other interests included a lifelong preoccupation with writing; in fact, his autobiography is one of the first examples of the genre in the United States. David C. Ward's engaging book, richly textured with references to the history and…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface: Charles Willson Peale: This New Man



"[W]hy not Act the Man[?]"



Forging: Charles Willson Peale and His Father



"This Faint Spark of Genius": Fortune, Patronage, and Peale's Rise as an Artist



"Application Will Overcome the Greatest Difficulties": Work, Career, and Identity in Peale's Art and Life



"I Scru[t]inize the Actions of Men"



A Good War and a Troubled Peace: Charles Willson Peale's Search for Order, 1776-94



"The Medicinal Office of the Mind": The Peale Museum's Mission of Reform, 1793-1810



"The Hygiene of the Self": Work, Writing, and the Englightened Body



"It Would Seem a Second Creation"



The Struggle against Dispersal: Work, Family, and Order in Peale's Family Portraits



"I Bring Forth into Public View": Peale's Secular Apotheosis in The Artist in His Museum


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