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This volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the
American Art Forum, by presenting 72 treasured works of art
selected by the curators of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In
six thematic and chronological sections, the curators cover the
huge variety of American art: luminous images of nature from the
mid-nineteenth century, such as Martin Johnson Heade's Newburyport
Meadows I, and fine landscape masterpieces in the Hudson River
tradition, including Sanford Robinson Gifford's The Marshes of the
Hudson (1876); light-filled impressionist canvases, such as Mary
Cassatt's Reading "Le Figaro" (1878); dazzling Gilded Age glass by
Louis Comfort Tiffany and paintings by John Singer Sargent; gritty
Ashcan records from a dynamic New York City, such as George
Bellows's Noon (1908); vivid aesthetic creations of the modern age;
the triumphant abstract expressionism of Willem de Kooning; and
resonant contemporary works by Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney. The
book also showcases major canvases by Georgia O'Keefe, such as
Black Cross with Red Sky (1929), John Marin's Taos Canyon, New
Mexico (1929), Cyrus Edwin Dallin's major statue Appeal to the
Great Spirit and James Earl Fraser's emotive bronze sculpture End
of the Trail (1918).
The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von
Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von
Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most influential scientists and
thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist,
explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books
graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers,
and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks
in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures
as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was
perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the
young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging
American identity grounded in the natural world. In this
beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how
Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts,
sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a
network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the
spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of
Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature
component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how
Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the
landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the
foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and
the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United
States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and
features works by leading American artists such as Albert
Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse.
Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC September 18, 2020-January 3, 2021
A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American
painting and photography in the 19th century The Civil War
redefined America and forever changed American art. Its grim
reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid
bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the
conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero
on the battlefield. Instead, many artists found ways to weave the
war into works of art that considered the human narrative-the daily
experiences of soldiers, slaves, and families left behind. Artists
and writers wrestled with the ambiguity and anxiety of the Civil
War and used landscape imagery to give voice to their misgivings as
well as their hopes for themselves and the nation. This important
book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and
following the war, in the years between 1852 and 1877. Author
Eleanor Jones Harvey surveys paintings made by some of America's
finest artists, including Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, Winslow
Homer, and Eastman Johnson, and photographs taken by George
Barnard, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Harvey
examines American landscape and genre painting and the new medium
of photography to understand both how artists made sense of the war
and how they portrayed what was a deeply painful, complex period in
American history. Enriched by firsthand accounts of the war by
soldiers, former slaves, abolitionists, and statesmen, Harvey's
research demonstrates how these artists used painting and
photography to reshape American culture. Alongside the artworks,
period voices (notably those of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and
Walt Whitman) amplify the anxiety and dilemmas of wartime America.
Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Smithsonian American Art
Museum11/16/12-04/28/13 The Metropolitan Museum of
Art05/21/13-09/02/13
Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for
entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important
identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about
themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by
thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the
shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and
Moral Identity Formation analyzes the possibility of identifying
and adopting moral values from television shows that aired during
the latest Golden Era of television and Peak TV. The diversity of
shows and approaches to moral becoming demonstrate how television
during these eras took advantage of new technologies to become more
film-like in both production quality and content. The increased
depth of characterization and explosion of content across streaming
and broadcast channels gave viewers a diversity of worlds and moral
values to explore. The possibility of finding a moral in the
stories told on popular shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad,
The Wire, and The Good Place, as well as lesser known shows such as
Letterkenny and The Unicorn, are explored in a way that centers
television viewing as a site for moral identity formation.
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