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William Harnett's Curious Objects - Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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William Harnett's Curious Objects - Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William
Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was
technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist,
William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's career-long
effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika Elder elevates
the significance of Harnett's academic training and questions his
apparent turn away from it. Reading his still lifes in relation to
wartime visual culture, literary realism, museum display, and
industrial design, she shows how Harnett experimented with
inanimate objects and pictorial techniques to represent the human
condition without depicting the human body. His paintings
illustrate late nineteenth-century American material culture, but
they also represent Reconstruction, interiority, death and life,
and the imagination. By engaging such lofty themes, Harnett
reimagined history painting for the modern era. His work thus
locates Gilded Age art and culture in the long shadow of the Civil
War and its politics.
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