Painters and the American West
Author: Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988177406
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Author: Joan Carpenter Troccoli
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988177406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Braider
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrief biographies of five early American painters including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull.
Author: Patricia Trenton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780520202030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich compendium of Western art by women, this book also contains essays which examine the many economic, social, and political forces that have shaped the art over years of pivotal change. The women profiled played an important role in gaining the acceptance of women as men's peers in artistic communities. Their independent spirit resonates in studios and galleries throughout the country today. Photos.
Author: Robert Byron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1136752404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, combined with the increasing humanisation of religious emotion, culminated, not only in Duccio and Giotto, but in the equally important work of their contemporaries at Mistra and Mount Athos. A detailed account of these works is given and in the last part of the book, the mystery of El Greco is finally resolved. The book is based, not only on extensive research but on personal observation of nearly all the works mentioned, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication. The book includes 94 black and white plates.
Author: Benita Eisler
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-07-22
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 039324086X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author: Peggy Samuels
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780517459461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated biographical dictionary of contemporary Western artists.
Author: John A. Cuthbert
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jamie Camplin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 1606065866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts. Such artworks show us not only how books have been valued over time but also how the practice of reading has evolved in Western society. Featuring over one hundred works by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.
Author: Society of Men Who Paint the Far West (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronnie C. Tyler
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication presents recent research in the field of western American narrative painting, and focuses on nine artists who helped to develop the images of the trapper, flatboatman, pioneer, Indian, and other American "types." It shows the familiar paintings of George Caleb Bingham in context with those of less-known artists such as William Rauney and Charles Wilmar and the relatively unknown works of Charles Deas. The essays demonstrate how the images of these and other artists were related to literature and to the popular prints through which they were transmitted to a wide audience. Narrative painting was especially prevalent in the years 1830 to 1860, when much of the public perception of the West was formed, and the scenes of the familiar--of everyday life--helped the unfamiliar and exotic West become an integral part of America's concept of itself. ISBN 0-89659-691-5: $39.95 (For use only in the library).