American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface

Name: American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface
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ISBN: 9780195309423

ISBN-10: 0195309421

ISBN-13: 9780195309423

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Barbara Novak

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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…

Book details

List price: $97.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English




Prolegomena to the nineteenth century : Copley and the American tradition



Washington Allston : an American romantic tradition



Thomas Cole : the dilemma of the real and the ideal



Asher B. Durand : Hudson River School solutions



Luminism : an alternative tradition



Fitz H. Lane : a paradigm of luminism



Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light



William Sidney Mount : monumental genre



George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism



Winslow Homer : concept and percept



Thomas Eakins : science and sight



Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought



William Harnett : every object rightly seen



The painterly mode in America



Epilogue : the twentieth century