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The American school : artists and status in the late colonial and early national era
- Title
- The American school : artists and status in the late colonial and early national era / Susan Rather.
- Author
- Rather, Susan
- Publication
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Description
- vii, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Uniform Title
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Alternative Title
- Artists and status in the late colonial and early national era
- Subjects
- Art and society
- HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- United States
- ART / European
- Artists > Social conditions
- ART / American / General
- Artists > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- 1700 - 1899
- History
- Art and society > United States > History > 18th century
- Artists > United States > Social conditions > 18th century
- Art and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part 1: three perspectives on the 1760s -- Portrait painting and status in Boston and London -- The trade of art in Philadelphia and New York -- The American School, Italy and London -- Part 2: the Early Republic -- Painters in print -- Contrary Stuart -- The American west.
- Call Number
- JQF 16-405
- ISBN
- 9780300214611
- 0300214618
- LCCN
- 2015025662
- OCLC
- 910504269
- Author
- Rather, Susan, author.
- Title
- The American school : artists and status in the late colonial and early national era / Susan Rather.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700 - 1899
- Added Author
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 16-405