| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Art History |
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Routledge research in art history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Opening the Space Between: Antebellum American Pendant Paintings ; History of the Pendant; Antebellum American Pendants; Dualism and Transgression; Pairs and Intervals; Extraordinary Examples; Beyond Content; Notes; 1 Putting the "Rip" in Rip Van Winkle: Historical Absence in John Quidor's Pendant Paintings; An Idiosyncratic Artist; Retrospection; A Different Type of History Painting; Ellipsis; Revolution in a Dream Space; History in a Fiery World |
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Retrospecting about RetrospectionThe Question of History; Notes; 2 Taking a Contemplative Look: Visual Devotion in Thomas Cole's The Departure and The Return; A Higher Style of Landscape; Reviving the Gothic; Defeat and Salvation; The Journey; Returning; Shifting Perspectives; Disguise; At Odds with Public Taste; Effortful Looking; Activating the Beholder; Broken Panorama; Difficulty; Madonna; Unfolding Diptych; Looking Again; Notes; 3 The Missing Pacific: The Expeditionary Blank in Titian Ramsay Peale's Kilauea Landscapes; A Life in Natural History; On Topography; On Ethnography; Two Views |
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Threat and EvasionOn Volcanoes and Craters; Experiencing the Navigational Blank; Insecurities of Expeditionary Imaging; Records of Loss; Notes; Epilogue: After the Antebellum: Pendants during the Civil War and Postbellum Era ; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Color Plates |
| Summary |
"Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair. It opens with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic theory and explores its cultural and historical resonance in the 19th-century United States. Three case studies examine how antebellum American artists used the pendant format in ways revelatory of their historical moment and the aesthetic and cultural developments in which they partook. The case studies on John Quidor's Rip Van Winkle and His Companions at the Inn Door of Nicholas Vedder (1839) and The Return of Rip Van Winkle (1849) and Thomas Cole's Departure and Return (1837) shed new light on canonical antebellum American artists and their practices. The chapter on Titian Ramsay Peale's Kilauea by Day and Kilauea by Night (1842) presents new material that pushes the geographical boundaries of American art studies toward the Pacific Rim. The book contributes to American art history the study of a characteristic but as yet overlooked format and models for the discipline a new and productive framework of analysis focused on the fundamental yet complex way images work back and forth with one another."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Painting, American -- 19th century.
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ART -- History -- Romanticism.
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ART -- Techniques -- Painting.
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Painting, American
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351668620 |
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1351668625 |
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