Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Art gallery, annexes, and outdoor works of art. Department IV. Art
Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
International Exhibition, 1876
Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
International Exhibition, 1876
Author: National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture
Author: Jana WijnsouwPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351778145
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, importance of, and emphasis on certain aspects of national identity evolved throughout the century, while a diverse array of criteria were indicated by commissioners, art critics, or artists that supposedly constituted a "national sculpture." By confronting the role and impact of the four most crucial actors within the artistic field (politics, education, exhibitions, public commissions) with a linear timeframe, this book offers a chronological as well as a thematic approach. Artists covered include Guillaume Geefs, Eugène Simonis, Charles Van der Stappen, Julien Dillens, Paul Devigne, Constantin Meunier, and George Minne.
The Story of the Centennial of 1876
Author: Silas Edgar TroutPublisher:
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture
Author: Catherine HolochwostPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429615302
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination’s potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dioramas, gift books, and theatrical performances that pictured a preindustrial—and largely imaginary—European past. By examining the visual, material, and rhetorical strategies artists like Washington Allston, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, and others used to navigate this treacherous ground, Catherine Holochwost uncovers a hidden tension in antebellum aesthetics. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, literary and cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, and media studies.
Designing the Centennial
Author: Bruno GibertiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181488
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity—the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes an object valuable—its usefulness as a subject of study and learning versus its ability to be bought and sold on the market. Arguments over design of the Centennial reflected these opposing viewpoints. Initial plans were rigidly structured, dividing the exhibits by country and type. But as some exhibitors became more interested in the preferences of their audience, they adopted a more modern stance. Objects traditionally displayed in isolated glass boxes were placed in fictive context—the necklace draped over a mannequin, the vase set on a table in a model room. As a result, the audience could more easily perceive these items as commodities suitable for their own environments and the fair as a place to find ideas for a material lifestyle. Designing the Centennial is a vital first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come: in future world's fairs, museums, department stores, and in the nature of display itself.
Seeing America
Author: University of Rochester. Memorial Art GalleryPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A stunning, full-color volume that examines 82 pieces in the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection and their connections to American history, culture, literature, and politics. Seeing America is the first-ever catalog of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection. Founded in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery was created in conjunction with the University of Rochester so that it would function within a scholarly milieu, yet at the same time perform service as a community museum. From its conception it has been an ardent advocate for American art, which so many counterpart institutions snubbed untilat least the 1930s, and more often until well after World War II, in favor of European and Asian art. The 336-page, full-color volume examines 82 objects and their connections to American history, culture, literature and politics. The 73 articles present a running commentary on each piece by knowledgeable and thoughtful contemporary scholars and artists writing with expertise and insight, ultimately presenting a new and deeper understanding that enhances the reader/viewer's appreciation of the work. The tour ranges from Colonial times to the twenty-first century, from Maine to Florida to the far West, from mighty historical subjects to intimate byways, from august figures and events to the humblest and most anonymous. The diversity of American experience on display here reminds us that the best American art is inextricably bound up with the essential truths of American experience.