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Italian Presence In American Art 18
Irma B. Jaffe
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Description for Italian Presence In American Art 18
Hardback. The essays in the second volume on this subject examine the struggle of American artists at a time when the nation fought for political unity. The book explores how the political and economic expansion of America is often infused with efforts to reconcile goals with a European past. Num Pages: 265 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 209 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1404.
Like a magic potion, Italianita has seeped through the stream of American aesthetic consciousness ever since Benjamin West stepped onto Italian soil in 1760. The first period of this artistic phenomenon was investigated in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 and the book at hand thus continues this intellectual exploration in its development during the following sixty years. Those decades between the Civil War and World War I brought to a climax the growing sense of American continental nationhood, and this strengthened perception of national identity was reflected in American art. A synthesis was achieved in which American values ... Read more
Like a magic potion, Italianita has seeped through the stream of American aesthetic consciousness ever since Benjamin West stepped onto Italian soil in 1760. The first period of this artistic phenomenon was investigated in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 and the book at hand thus continues this intellectual exploration in its development during the following sixty years. Those decades between the Civil War and World War I brought to a climax the growing sense of American continental nationhood, and this strengthened perception of national identity was reflected in American art. A synthesis was achieved in which American values ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823213429
SKU
V9780823213429
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About Irma B. Jaffe
Irma B. Jaffe’s books include Joseph Stella; Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution; The Italian Presence in American Art; Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets; and Giuseppe Betussi and Eleanora Falletti, Polygraph and Poet at the Dawn of Popular Literature. The recipient of many awards and grants, she founded the department of Art ... Read more
Reviews for Italian Presence In American Art 18
These 16 separate essays probe into and beyond our generally held recognition of the prominent role Italy and Italians exerted on painters, sculptors, and architects of our new world. Palladianism
by way of England, to be sure
first touched the colonies and new republic. Here Palladianism and the following classicism in American sculpture and architecture are examined afresh. Matters of less currency ... Read more
by way of England, to be sure
first touched the colonies and new republic. Here Palladianism and the following classicism in American sculpture and architecture are examined afresh. Matters of less currency ... Read more