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Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz - The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,310
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Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz - The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age (Hardcover): Randall C. Griffin

Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz - The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)

Randall C. Griffin

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Randall Griffin's book examines the ways in which artists and critics sought to construct a new identity for America during the era dubbed the Gilded Age because of its leaders' taste for opulence. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Anshutz explored alternative "American" themes and styles, but widespread belief in the superiority of European art led them and their audiences to look to the Old World for legitimacy. This rich, never-resolved contradiction between the native and autonomous, on the one hand, and, on the other, the European and borrowed serves as the armature of Griffin's innovative look at how and why the world of art became a key site in the American struggle for identity.

Not only does Griffin trace the interplay of issues of nationalism, class, and gender in American culture, but he also offers insightful readings of key paintings by Eakins and other canonical artists. Further, Griffin shows that by 1900 the nationalist project in art and criticism had helped open the way for the formulation of American modernism.

Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz will be of importance to all those interested in American culture as well as to specialists in art history and art criticism.

General

Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2004
First published: March 2004
Authors: Randall C. Griffin
Dimensions: 229 x 178 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02329-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
LSN: 0-271-02329-5
Barcode: 9780271023298

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