Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter - Softcover

Manoguerra, Paul; Simon, Janice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915977540 ISBN 13: 9780915977543

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Georgia Museum, 2004

Synopsis

Featuring essays by Paul Manoguerra, curator of American Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, and Janice Simon, professor of art history at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Painting and the Italian Encounter accompanies the exhibition of the same title. The exhibition brings together a group of paintings by American artists as a result of their mid-nineteenth-century Italian travels on the "Grand Tour." Thomas Cole, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and other American painters created a body of work featuring Italian landscapes, people, buildings, and life. Classic Ground situates American paintings, with Italian subject matter, in the context of mid-nineteenth-century politics, gender, ideology, religion, and popular culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Georgia Museum
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0915977540
• ISBN 13: 9780915977543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124