Critical shift : rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the narratives of nineteenth-century American art / Karen L. Georgi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgi, Karen, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism--United States--History--19th century.

Art criticism.

Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888--Criticism and interpretation.

Jarves, James Jackson.

Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Cook, Clarence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A reassessment of the writings of the mid-nineteenth-century American art critics James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), Clarence Cook (1828-1900), and William J. Stillman (1828-1901), and their role in the historiography of American art"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rereading James Jackson Jarves's art-idea

Clarence Cook and Jarves : fact, feeling, and the discourse of truthfulness in art

A further look at Clarence Cook and the "revolution" in art

William J. Stillman's Ruskinian criticism : metaphor and essential meaning

Art discourse after Ruskin : time and history in art.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271060941

0271060948

9780271062471

0271062479

OCLC:

857493075