A Revolution in Color - The World of John Singleton Copley

In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage of Boston's leaders but he did not share their politics and painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. A British subject who lamented America's provincialism, Copley looked longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into war, he was in London. A painter of America's revolution as Britain's American War, the magisterial canvases he created made him one of the towering figures of the British art scene. Kamensky brings Copley's world alive and explores the fraught relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and posterity-tensions that characterised the era of the American Revolution and that beset us still.

About the author

Jane Kamensky is the author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and professor emerita of history at Harvard University. She is the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has previously served as director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Summary

This bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Kamensky, Kamensky Jane
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2016
• EAN: 9780393240016
• ISBN: 978-0-393-24001-6
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 244 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 980 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of color; 50 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Paintings and painting