American Painting of the Nineteenth Century : Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface : Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume—featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates—remains one of the seminal works in American art history. In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature.
Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history. Annotation In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called surely the best book ever written on the subject, Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our artworks, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about therole in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history Prolegomena To The Nineteenth Century : Copley And The American Tradition -- Washington Allston : An American Romantic Tradition -- Thomas Cole : The Dilemma Of The Real And The Ideal -- Asher B. Durand : Hudson River School Solutions -- Luminism : An Alternative Tradition -- Fitz H. Lane : A Paradigm Of Luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade : Haystacks And Light -- William Sidney Mount : Monumental Genre -- George Caleb Bingham : Missouri Classicism -- Winslow Homer : Concept And Percept -- Thomas Eakins : Science And Sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder : Even With A Thought -- William Harnett : Every Object Rightly Seen -- The Painterly Mode In America -- Epilogue : The Twentieth Century. Barbara Novak. Previously Published: Boulder, Colo. : Perseus Books (icon Editions), 1979. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 285-294) And Index. Illuminates what is essentially American about American art. The author highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in American art works, but also those features that consistently reappear. She also examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B Durand, Fitz H Lane, William Sidney Mount, among others. 'What is American in American Art?' The first volume in Novak's trilogy on American art and culture isolates certain characteristics in nineteenth-century American art that we can denote as American.