From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exh
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Table of contents
- Cover
- AMERICAN ART TO 1900
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. THE COLONIAL ERA
- 2. REVOLUTION AND EARLY REPUBLIC
- 3. ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: VALUES AND INSTITUTIONS
- 4. ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: LANDSCAPE, LIFE, AND SPECTACLE
- 5. ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: PUBLIC ART AND POPULAR ART
- 6. ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: EXPANDING HORIZONS
- 7. THE 1860s
- 8. THE GILDED AGE: LIFE AND LANDSCAPE AT HOME
- 9. THE GILDED AGE: ART WORLDS AND ART MARKETS
- 10. THE GILDED AGE: EDUCATION, INSTITUTIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS
- 11. COSMOPOLITAN DIALOGUES
- 12. NEW MEDIA, NEW TASTEMAKERS, NEW MASSES
- 13. BEAUTY, VISION, AND MODERNITY
- 14. IMPERIAL AMERICA
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Index
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