Author: Wendell Stanton HowardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A Painting by Will H. Low
Author: Wendell Stanton HowardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A Painter's Progress
Author: Will Hicok LowScribner's Monthly
Author: Albany Institute of History & Art
Author: Albany Institute of History and ArtPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9781555951016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore BurlingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Current
Author: The Virgin & the Dynamo
Author: Bailey Van HookPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Annotation The first book in almost a century to concentrate exclusively on the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States.
Thomas Hovenden
Author: Anne Gregory TerhunePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812239202
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A realistic genre painter and recorder of everyday activities such as those involving home and family, Hovenden had a particular gift for choosing subjects with wide recognition and appeal. His work reflects a Victorian ethos; unlike many artists of the time, however, Hovenden's work featured African American subjects in domestic settings. His firm belief in sentiment and beauty as the goals of artistic pursuits is evident in the nostalgic paintings for which he is best known, such as The Last Moments of John Brown, in which Brown is depicted stopping on his way to the gallows to kiss a young black child.
An Artist of the American Renaissance
Author: Kenyon CoxPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385176
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Kenyon Cox was a leading American painter in the classical style and a traditionalist art critic. This collection of his private correspondence charts his personal life and career development, and provides an insight into the inner workings of the American art scene.
Angels of Art
Author: Bailey Van HookPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271024790
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. In painting and sculpture, they took on a bewildering variety of identities, from Venus, Ariadne, and Diana to Law, Justice, the Arts, and Commerce. Bailey Van Hook argues here that the artists' concepts of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. She finds that certain characteristics such as &"ideal,&" &"beautiful,&" &"decorative,&" and &"pure&" both describe this art and define the perceived role of women in American society at the time. Most late nineteenth-century American artists had trained in Paris, where they learned to use female imagery as a pictorial language of provocative sensuality. Van Hook first places the American artists in an international context by discussing the works of their French teachers, including Jean-L&éon G&ér&ôme and Alexandre Cabanel. She goes on to explore why they soon had to distance themselves from that context, primarily because their art was perceived as either openly sensual or too obliquely foreign by American audiences. Van Hook delineates the modes of representation the American painters chose, which ranged from the more traditional allegorical or mythological subjects to a decorative figure painting indebted to Whistler. Changing American culture ultimately rejected these idealized female images as too genteel and, eventually, too academic and European. Angels of Art is the first study to discuss the predominance of images of women across stylistic boundaries and within the wider context of European art. It relies heavily on contemporary sources both to document critical responses and to find intersecting patterns in attitudes toward women and art.