John Rogers: American Stories - Hardcover
John Rogers (1829-1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as ""Rogers Groups"" over the course of a career that spanned the late nineteenth century. Rogers himself said, ""I want each group to tell a story,"" and these narrative sculptures carried on a deeply rooted popular American genre tradition that was established in the antebellum period by painters such as William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham. The book, generously illustrated and containing eleven essays on different aspects of his work (including its Neoclassical elements influences and the mass market it found), aims to bring Rogers's work to life for a new generation of admirers.
Other contributors include Linda S. Ferber, senior art historian and director emerita, N-YHS; Erin Toomey, Jessica Fracassini and Leslie Ransick Gat, Art Conservation Group; Michael Clapper, associate professor, Franklin and Marshall College; Melissa Dabakis, professor, Kenyon College; David Jaffee, professor, Bard Graduate Center; Michael Leja, professor, University of Pennsylvania; Leo Mazow, curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art; Kirk Savage, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh; and Thayer Tolles, associate curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Kimberly Orcutt is associate curator of American Art, New-York Historical Society (N-YHS).
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- PublisherPhilip Wilson Publishers
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0856676896
- ISBN 13 9780856676895
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Blue card wraps with illustration and white lettering. French flaps. 243 pp. full of color images. Co-published by Philip Wilson Publishers, London. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, Feb. 22-May 15, 2011; the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, June 19-Oct. 9, 2011; and the New-York Historical Society, Oct. 19, 2012-Feb. 17, 2013. VG- with just light shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 163395
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