American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience / Barbara Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novak, Barbara, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, American--19th century.

Painting, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, plates

Edition:

3rd ed., [New ed.] / with a new preface.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is American in American art? This text isolates certain characteristics in 19th century American art that we can denote as American.

Contents:

Prolegomena to the nineteenth century : Copley and the American tradition

Washington Allston : an American romantic tradition

Thomas Cole : the dilemma of the real and the ideal

Asher B. Durand : Hudson River School solutions

Luminism : an alternative tradition

Fitz H. Lane : a paradigm of luminism

Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light

William Sidney Mount : monumental genre

George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism

Winslow Homer : concept and percept

Thomas Eakins : science and sight

Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought

William Harnett : every object rightly seen

The painterly mode in America

Epilogue : the twentieth century.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously published: Boulder, Colorado : Perseus Books (Icon Editions), 1979.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771126-X

0-19-029487-6

9786611163464

1-281-16346-5

0-19-804225-6

1-4294-8696-1

OCLC:

437092150