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A True American - William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century Art (Hardcover)
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A True American - William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century Art (Hardcover)
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This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to
Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political
parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of
nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized.
In an era of industrialization, nativism's erection of barriers to
immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most
male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly,
its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic
also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity
of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human
condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often consigned
Catholicism, along with monarchies and slavery, to a repressive
past, not the republican American future. To demonstrate the impact
of this political effort by humanitarian reformers and nativists to
define a Protestant character for the country, this book tracks the
work and practice of artist William Walcutt. Though he is little
known today, in his own time his efforts as a painter, illustrator
and sculptor were acclaimed as masterly, and his art is worth
reconsidering in its own right. But this book examines him as a
case study of an artist whose economic and personal ties to
artisanal print culture and cultural nationalists ensured that he
was surrounded by and contributed to anti-Catholic publications and
organizations. Walcutt was not anti immigrant himself, nor a member
of a nativist party, but his kin, friends, and patrons publicly
expressed warnings about Catholic and foreign political influence.
And that has implications for better-known nineteenth-century
historical and narrative art. Precisely because Walcutt's profile
and milieu were so typical for artists in this period, this book is
able to demonstrate how central this supposedly fringe movement was
to viewers and makers of American art.
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