American School - Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era

Informationen zum Autor Susan Rather is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. Klappentext "This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical, professional, and material perspectives, and delves into topics such as portrait painting in Boston and London; the trade of art in Philadelphia and New York; the negotiability and usefulness of colonial American identity in Italy and London; and the shifting representation of artists in and from the former British colonies after the Revolutionary War, when London remained the most important cultural touchstone. The book interweaves nuanced analysis of well-known artists--John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart, among others--with accounts of non-elite painters and ephemeral texts and images such as painted signs and advertisements. Throughout, Rather questions the validity of the term "American," which she sees as provisional--the product of an evolving, multifaceted cultural construction. "-- Zusammenfassung An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century

Product details

• Authors: Susan Rather, Rather Susan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2016
• EAN: 9780300214611
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21461-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, ART / History / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800