American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880 - Softcover

WILTON & BARRINGER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854373870 ISBN 13: 9781854373878

Publisher: TATE, 1999

Synopsis

This title is published to accompany an exhibition at Tate Britain of over 90 of these works, and concentrates on the classic period of the Hudson River painters and other artists with similar interests, from 1820 to 1880.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Wilton is former Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at the Tate Gallery. He is the author of The Swagger Portrait and the editor of Grand Tour and The Age of Rossetti. Tim Barringer is Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale University. He is coeditor of Colonialism and the Object and Reading the Pre-Raphaelites.

Review:

Winner of the Art Exhibition Catalogue Award, Art Newspaper/AXA

Winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award
Winner of the Art Exhibition Catalogue Award, Art Newspaper/AXA
Winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award
"A gorgeously illustrated and learned history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. . . . Wilton and Barringer's commentary is stimulating and important, and the exceptional plates are bliss unadulterated."--Booklist

"Splendid. . . . Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer have written a book to treasure. . . . A valuable contribution to the study of American art history."--Phyllis Tuchman, ArtNet Magazine

A gorgeously illustrated and learned history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. . . . Wilton and Barringer's commentary is stimulating and important, and the exceptional plates are bliss unadulterated. (Booklist)

Splendid. . . . Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer have written a book to treasure. . . . A valuable contribution to the study of American art history.---Phyllis Tuchman, ArtNet Magazine

"The essays and catalog entries are well written and informative, providing a geographic and historical context for the artwork, [but] it is the stunning illustrations (including several two-page foldouts) that dazzle the eye and imagination."--Library Journal

The essays and catalog entries are well written and informative, providing a geographic and historical context for the artwork, [but] it is the stunning illustrations (including several two-page foldouts) that dazzle the eye and imagination. (Library Journal)

"What glorious images these are!"--National Geographic Adventure

About this edition

• Publisher: TATE
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1854373870
• ISBN 13: 9781854373878
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290