Anglo-American

Artistic Exchange Between Britain and the USA
Ed. by David P. Corbett and Sarah Monks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For the first time, a distinguished line-up of scholars from bothAmerica and the UK consider the complex history of artisticrelations between Britain and the USA, covering the years from thecolonial period to the 1960s.

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For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British arthistorians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relationsfrom the colonial period through to the 1960s

Features a transatlantic group of scholars considering theimpact of this relationship on the history of art in bothnations

Offers a set of new approaches, and much new material relatingto the history of British and American art

Situates the history of British and American art in thecontext of recent scholarship, offering a new reading of this keyartistic interaction

Produktdetails

• Art History Special Issues .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 211mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781444351439
• ISBN-10: 1444351435
• Artikelnr.: 34551597

Autorenporträt

David Peters Corbett is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and Editor of Art History. He has written widely on English and American art between 1850 and 1950, and has published most recently on the Ashcan School and on the problem of the past in the work of Charles Sheeler. Sarah Monks is Lecturer in Art History in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia. The author of Marine Painting in Britain, 1650-1850, and co-editor of Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848, both forthcoming, she is currently working on a new book project concerning the relationship between British art and global commerce, experience and imperial ideology during the eighteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange
between Britain and the USA David Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks 30 Chapter
2 The Wolfe Man: Benjamin West's Anglo-American Accent Sarah Monks 52
Chapter 3 Failure to Deliver: Watson and the Shark and the Boston Tea Party
Jennifer L. Roberts 74 Chapter 4 Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic
Dislocation: Joshua Shaw's Disruptive Visions of the Old New World Kenneth
Haltman 92 Chapter 5 Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape
of Post-Emancipation Jamaica Jennifer Raab 110 Chapter 6 Troubled
Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du Maurier
Jennifer A. Greenhill 132 Chapter 7 'In seen and unseen places': The Henry
G. Marquand House and Collections in England and America Melody Barnett
Deusner 152 Chapter 8 Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and
the 'Anglo-American' in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan David
Peters Corbett 174 Chapter 9 Losing Sight: War, Authority, and Blindness in
British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22 David M. Lubin 196 Chapter 10
The Madness of Art: Georgia O'Keeffe and Virginia Woolf Alexander Nemerov
216 Chapter 11 'Strange Encounters': Claes Oldenburg's 'Proposed Colossal
Monuments' for New York and London Jo Applin 236 Chapter 12 David Hockney:
A Taste for Los Angeles Cécile Whiting 253 Index