Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks
the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images
designed as a pair. It opens with a broad overview that anchors the
form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic
theory and explores its cultural and historical resonance in the
19th-century United States. Three case studies examine how
antebellum American artists used the pendant format in ways
revelatory of their historical moment and the aesthetic and
cultural developments in which they partook. The case studies on
John Quidor's Rip Van Winkle and His Companions at the Inn Door of
Nicholas Vedder (1839) and The Return of Rip Van Winkle (1849) and
Thomas Cole's Departure and Return (1837) shed new light on
canonical antebellum American artists and their practices. The
chapter on Titian Ramsay Peale's Kilauea by Day and Kilauea by
Night (1842) presents new material that pushes the geographical
boundaries of American art studies toward the Pacific Rim. The book
contributes to American art history the study of a characteristic
but as yet overlooked format and models for the discipline a new
and productive framework of analysis focused on the fundamental yet
complex way images work back and forth with one another.
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