American Views: Essays on American Art - Softcover

Wilmerding, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069102491X ISBN 13: 9780691024912

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1993

Synopsis

A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history, and has brought many eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American artists to public attention. American Views is a richly illustrated anthology of his work.

About this title

About the Author:

John Wilmerding, Princeton University's first Christopher Binyon Sarofim '86 Professor in American Art and visiting curator at the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum, was deputy director of the National Gallery of Art from 1983 to 1988.

From Publishers Weekly:

George Bellows's assertive boxing pictures, John F. Peto's obsessive imagery of Abraham Lincoln, George Caleb Bingham's folksy scenes of mid-19th-century America and Winslow Homer's elemental seascapes all seem to hint that American art has a national character, the stated theme of these erudite essays. Yet Princeton art professor Wilmerding only fitfully pursues that connective thread. Twelve of these 19 essays are from exhibition catalogues, others appeared in scholarly or popular magazines. Completely at home with his material, Wilmerding underscores the poignant magic of Thomas Eakins's late portrait, finds parallels between luminism and the imagery of Hawthorne, Thoreau and Emerson, and looks at ship painter Fitz Hugh Lane, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and such artists as Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church. With 224 halftones and 29 color plates, this handsome volume will interest connoisseurs and general art lovers.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 069102491X
• ISBN 13: 9780691024912
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382