Redefining American History Painting
Redefining American History Painting
Lucretia Hoover Giese , Rhode Island School of Design
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Redefining American History Painting reassesses an important genre within the history of American painting, from prehistoric times to the present. By broadening the parameters of history painting to include works by previously marginalized groups, this anthology collectively extends the genre's traditional time frame well beyond the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which it has traditionally been confined. The essays recapture the importance of history painting for contemporary readers, decode meanings of significant works in new ways, and demonstrate the ongoing and vital role of the genre. Situating the enterprise of history painting within a theoretical framework that analyzes how it actually functions, this collection includes eighteen essays that range from investigations of individual paintings, to patronage and reception studies which incorporate diverse methodological approaches.
- Number, diversity, and inclusivity of topics covered
- Currency of material in that the book extends the practice of history painting to the present
- Variety of scholarly approaches
Product details
November 1995Hardback
9780521460590
427 pages
261 × 183 × 25 mm
1.105kg
96 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print April 2007
Table of Contents
- Introduction: history painting: how it works Patricia M. Burnham and Lucretia Hoover Giese
- Part I. Historicity:
- 1. The hoop of history: native American murals and the historical present Francis V. O'Connor
- 2. John Trumbull historian: the case of the Battle of Bunker's Hill Patricia M. Burnham
- 3. Democracy, regionalism, and the saga of Major André Ann Uhry Abrams
- 4. 'Harvesting' the Civil War: art in wartime New York Lucretia Hoover Giese
- 5. 'A stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing': evolution and misogyny in the art of Frederick Remington Alexander Nemerov
- 6. Hidden histories: the Chicano experience Shifra M. Goldman
- 7. Installing history Lisa G. Corrin
- Part II. Narrativity:
- 8. Washington Allston: great painting as mute poetry Diana Strazdes
- 9. History in natural sequence: the Civil War polyptych of Frederic Edwin Church Joni L. Kinsey
- 10. '… one of the most powerful horrible and yet fascinating pictures …': Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic as history painting Eric M. Rosenberg
- 11. Abstract expressionism as historical myth Stephen Polcari
- 12. Revival, reflection, and parody: history painting in the postmodern era Mark Thistlethwaite
- Part III. Didactic Intent:
- 13. History painting at the American Academy of the Fine Arts Carrie Rebora
- 14. History as ideology
- or 'What You Don't See Can't Hurt You Mr. Bingham' Bryan J. Wolf
- 15. Imperiled ideals: British historical heroines in antebellum American history painting Wendy Greenhouse
- 16. Negotiating nationalism representing region: art history and ideology at the Minnesota and Texas capitols Emily Fourmy Cutrer
- 17. The Jersey Homesteads mural: Ben Shahn, Bernarda Bryson, and history painting in the 1930s Susan Noyes Platt
- 18. May Stevens: painting history as lived feminist experience Patricia Hills.
