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Visions of Belonging - New England Art and the Making of American Identity (Hardcover)
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Visions of Belonging - New England Art and the Making of American Identity (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of
New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard
Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, and Julian Weir, and other well-known
artists produced images of quaint villages, agricultural labor,
scenic rural churches, and the distinctive New England landscape.
Julia B. Rosenbaum asks why and how a range of artists including
Impressionist and Modernist painters and sculptors and exhibitors
fashioned this particular vision of New England in their work.
Against the backdrop of industrialization, immigration, and
persistent post-Civil War sectionalism, many Americans yearned for
national unity and identity. As Rosenbaum finds, New England
emerged as symbolic of cultural and spiritual achievement and
democratic values that served as an example for the nation. By
addressing the struggles for national unity, the book offers a new
interpretation of turn-of-the-century American art. Ultimately,
Visions of Belonging demonstrates how the local became so important
to the national; how art was crucial to the formation of national
identity; and how internal nation building takes place within the
realm of culture, as well as politics. And even as later artists,
such as Georgia O'Keeffe, challenged New England's cultural
hegemony, the appeal of linking regional identity to national
ideals continued in distinctive ways.Beautifully illustrated with
color plates and almost sixty halftones, Visions of Belonging
explores the interplay between art objects and the shaping of
loyalties and identities in a formative phase of American culture.
It will appeal not only to art historians but also to anyone with
an interest in nineteenth-century studies, the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era, American studies, New England history and culture,
and American cultural and intellectual history."
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