American stories
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127807
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137783
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  alternate name: Manners and customs in art
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  alternate name: Genre painting, American
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  alternate name: Genre painting, American--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Manners and customs in art--Exhibitions
abstract: Presents nearly two hundred extraordinary pictures that tell stories of ordinary people engaged in commonplace tasks and pleasures. The first overview of the subject in thirty-five years, this richly illustrated volume features masterpieces by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, John Sloan, and George Bellows, as well as notable examples by some of their key colleagues. These artists captured the temperament of their respective eras, describing and defining in their best works the character of Americans as individuals, citizens, and members of ever-widening communities from the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I. The authors--all distinguished curators and scholars--look at how painters told stories through their selections of settings, players, action, and various narrative devices. They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F.B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand. From 1860 to 1877, artists like Eastman Johnson, Homer, and Eakins responded to the Civil War and, going forward, encod…
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31170418
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31176719
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310121496
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3106377
language: eng
name: Paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: 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.
temporal coverage: 1700-1999
work example: American Stories Paintings of Everyday Life 1765 1915
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301334586
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