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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogues Exhibition catalogs Exhibitions In art Exhibitions |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: American stories. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 (OCoLC)664768500 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
H Barbara Weinberg; Carrie Rebora Barratt; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
ISBN: | 9781588393364 1588393364 9781588393371 1588393372 9780300155082 0300155085 |
OCLC Number: | 326626424 |
Notes: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 12, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 28-May 23, 2010. |
Awards: | Commended for IndieFab awards (Art Book) 2009 |
Description: | xviii, 222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
Contents: | Inventing American stories, 1765-1830 / Carrie Rebora Barratt -- Stories for the public, 1830-1860 / Bruce Robertson -- Stories of war and reconciliation, 1860-1877 / Margaret C. Conrads -- Cosmopolitan and candid stories, 1877-1915 / H. Barbara Weinberg. |
Other Titles: | Paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915 |
Responsibility: | edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt ; essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt [and others]. |
Abstract:
Focusing on some of the leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, this book addresses narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and, works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900.
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