American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience

Publication Data

• Title American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience
• Author Barbara Novak
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Previously published: Boulder, Colo. : Perseus Books (Icon Editions), 1979.

Contents

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.

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American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience by Barbara Novak. ISBN 9780195309492. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.