Trouble in Paradise

Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art

Alan Wallach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

492 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71151-8 (ISBN)

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A collection of highly readable essays (1977-2023) that critically examine the ideologies and historical circumstances associated with American landscape painting, art museums, and historiography, written by a leading scholar in the field of United States social art history.

A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called “Luminism,” the rise of the American art museum, the historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.

Alan Wallach, Ph.D. (1973), is the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at the College of William and Mary.

Acknowledgements

Copyright Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Part 1 Circa 1977: State of the Field

1 John Wilmerding’s American Art (1977)

2 Trouble in Paradise (1977)

Part 2 Six Critical Museum Studies

3 Rereading an anti-catalog: Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998)

4 ‘Norman Rockwell’ at the Guggenheim (2003)

5 The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict (2006)

6 The Unethical Art Museum (2006)

7 Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B.Durand’s Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008)

8 The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010)

Part 3 Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School

9 Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993)

10 Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994)

11 Thomas Cole’s River in the Catskills as Anti-Pastoral (2002)

12 Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007)

13 Rethinking ‘Luminism’: Taste, Class, and Aestheticizing Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011)

14 Patronage and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023)

Part 4 Short Takes

15 Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005)

16 Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979)

17 Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991)

18 Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022)

Part 5 Historiographical Reflections

19 Meyer Schapiro’s Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997)

20 Oliver Larkin’s Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001)

21 On the Social History of American Art (2015)

22 Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015)

23 Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017)

24 ‘A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject’ (2019)

Coda

Capitalism and the History of United States Art (2023)

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 331
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1028 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-71151-1 / 9004711511
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71151-8 / 9789004711518
Zustand	Neuware