Author: Union League Club of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Art-Union
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
The American Art-Union
Author: Kimberly A. OrcuttPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531507018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial question: Why did such a successful and influential institution fail? The American Art-Union reveals a sprawling and fascinating account of the country’s first nationwide artistic phenomenon, creating a shared experience of visual culture, art news and criticism, and a direct experience with original works. For an annual fee of five dollars, members of the American Art-Union received an engraving after a painting by a notable US artist and the annual publication Transactions (1839–49) and later the monthly Bulletin (1848–53). Most importantly, members’ names were entered in a drawing for hundreds of original paintings and sculptures by most of the era’s best-known artists. Those artworks were displayed in its immensely popular Free Gallery. Unfortunately, the experiment was short-lived. Opposition grew, and a cascade of events led to an 1852 court case that proved to be the Art-Union’s downfall. Illuminating the workings of the American art market, this study fills a gaping lacuna in the history of nineteenth-century US art. Kimberly A. Orcutt draws from the American Art-Union’s records as well as in-depth contextual research to track the organization’s decisive impact that set the direction of the country’s paintings, sculpture, and engravings for well over a decade. Forged in cultural crosscurrents of utopianism and skepticism, the American Art-Union’s demise can be traced to its nature as an attempt to create and control the complex system that the early nineteenth-century art world represented. This study breaks the organization’s activities into their major components to offer a structural rather than chronological narrative that follows mounting tensions to their inevitable end. The institution was undone not by dramatic outward events or the character of its leadership but by the character of its utopianist plan.
The Art-union
Author: Bulletin of the American Art Union
Author: American Art-UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Transactions of the American Art-Union
Author: American Art-UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
List of members in each vol.
Transactions of the American Art-Union, for the Year ...
Author: American Art-UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
An Address delivered before the Art-Union of Philadelphia in the Academy of Fine Art, etc
Author: William Henry FURNESS (D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Annual Report of the Committee of Management of the Art-Union of London, with List of Subscribers
Author: Art Union of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Cincinnati Union Terminal
Author: Gibson YungblutPublisher: Cincinnati Railroad Club Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967612508
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Transactions of the American Art-Union
Author: American Art-UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
List of members in each vol.