Reading American Art

Name: Reading American Art
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ISBN: 9780300069983

ISBN-10: 0300069987

ISBN-13: 9780300069983

Edition: 1998

Authors: Marianne Doezema, Elizabeth Milroy

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This anthology contains 20 works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 6/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Editors' Preface



The Seventeenth-Century New England Mercantile Image: Social Content and Style in the Freake Portraits




Character and Class: The Portraits of John Singleton Copley




Charles Willson Peale's Expressive Design: The Artist in His Museum




Thomas Cole and the Aristocracy




"A Correct Likeness": Culture and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Rural America




The Painter's Triumph: William Sidney Mount and the Formation of a Middle-Class Art




"Doomed to Perish": George Catlin's Depictions of the Mandan




Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave




The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis: Invoking and Inverting Autobiography




"The Kiss of Enterprise": The Western Landscape as Symbol and Resource




The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross




Winslow Homer in His Art




Mary Cassatt: Painter of Women and Children




Image and Ideology: New York in the Photographer's Eye




John Sloan's Images of Working-Class Women: A Case Study of the Roles and Interrelationships of Politics, Personality, and Patrons in the Development of Sloan's Art, 1905-16




O'Keeffe and the Masculine Gaze




The Open Window and the Empty Chair: Charles Sheeler's View of New York




The Birth of a National Icon: Grant Wood's American Gothic




The Question of Difference: Isabel Bishop's Deferential Office Girls




Jackson Pollock: Representing the Unconscious



Contributors


Acknowledgments