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The Artist in American Society (Paperback, Phoenix ed., with a new pref)
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The Artist in American Society (Paperback, Phoenix ed., with a new pref)
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If one can stand the author's inflexible prose, this study of the
formative years (1790-1860) of American art makes extremely
instructive reading. Probably influenced by Arnold Hauser's
socio-cultural methods, Harris assembles a well-prepared account of
the various battles and/or detentes our early painters engaged in
or suffered from. Thus the discussion of aesthetics here is largely
subservient to a chronological summary of public ideals, or lack of
them, from Colonial days to the Civil War. The dim beginnings
center on the limitations of the Puritan ethos and the stultifying
Philistinism which equated art with effeminacy or a kind of
aristocratic subversion. The shifts in community attitudes, the
growth of materialism, the establishment of Academies, clerical
opposition and political neglect, the slavery to portraiture - all
these factors went into the lengthy struggle engulfing such figures
as Copley, West, Peale, and Cole. The legacy of the Revolution, the
broadening outlook affected through European travel, and the
pursuit of an indigenous consciousness are particularly
well-developed, as are the complementary literary appeals of
Hawthorne and Emerson, Twain and James. ??For the Prof set. (Kirkus
Reviews)
What was the place of the artist in a new society? How would he
thrive where monarchy, aristocracy, and an established
church--those traditional patrons of painting, sculpture, and
architecture--were repudiated so vigorously? Neil Harris examines
the relationships between American cultural values and American
society during the formative years of American art and explores how
conceptions of the artist's social role changed during those
years.
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