Author: Edward Simmons
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book is an autobiography of the American Impressionist painter, Edward Simmons, who is well-known for his mural works, one of which was featured in the Library of Congress. Simmons was a member of the Ten American Painters, who, as a group, seceded from the Society of American Artists. He was also considered a contributor to the style known as the American Renaissance, a movement after the American Civil War that stressed the relationships among architecture, painting, sculpture, and interior design.
From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee
Author: Edward Simmons
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book is an autobiography of the American Impressionist painter, Edward Simmons, who is well-known for his mural works, one of which was featured in the Library of Congress. Simmons was a member of the Ten American Painters, who, as a group, seceded from the Society of American Artists. He was also considered a contributor to the style known as the American Renaissance, a movement after the American Civil War that stressed the relationships among architecture, painting, sculpture, and interior design.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book is an autobiography of the American Impressionist painter, Edward Simmons, who is well-known for his mural works, one of which was featured in the Library of Congress. Simmons was a member of the Ten American Painters, who, as a group, seceded from the Society of American Artists. He was also considered a contributor to the style known as the American Renaissance, a movement after the American Civil War that stressed the relationships among architecture, painting, sculpture, and interior design.
One of the Guilty
Thomas Hovenden
Author: Anne Gregory Terhune
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208870
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This first full-length study fosters a greater understanding of Hovenden's gifts as a painter and of his stylistic contribution to art. Chronologically organized, it is both a retrospective of Hovenden's work and a critical biography of the artist.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208870
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This first full-length study fosters a greater understanding of Hovenden's gifts as a painter and of his stylistic contribution to art. Chronologically organized, it is both a retrospective of Hovenden's work and a critical biography of the artist.
The Virgin & the Dynamo
Author: Bailey Van Hook
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
McClure's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Mark Twain Laughing
Author: Paul M. Zall
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870495441
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Compares humorous stories Twain told publicly and privately with those wrongly attributed to him, and discusses his development as a speaker.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870495441
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Compares humorous stories Twain told publicly and privately with those wrongly attributed to him, and discusses his development as a speaker.
Angels of Art
Author: Bailey Van Hook
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The New Republic
Author: Herbert David Croly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Book of American Figure Painters
Author: Mariana G. Van Rensselaer
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description