Author: Harry Brandeis WehlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
American Miniatures, 1730-1850
Author: Harry Brandeis WehlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
American Miniatures, 1730-1850
Author: Harry Brandeis WehlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
American Miniatures, 1730-1850
Author: Harry Brandeis WehlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
American Miniatures, 1730-1850
Author: Harry Brandeis WehlePublisher:
ISBN: 9780306717086
Category : Miniature painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Perfect Likeness
Author: Cincinnati Art MuseumPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300115806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection
Author: Dale T. JohnsonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995979
Category : Portrait miniatures
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393577
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection
Author: Dale T. JohnsonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995979
Category : Portrait miniatures
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America
Author: Wes SiegristPublisher: Wes Siegrist
ISBN: 0982127839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Republic of Taste
Author: Catherine E. KellyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aesthetic sensibilities connected like-minded individuals and that shared affinities advanced the public good and held great promise for the American republic. Exploring the intersection of the early republic's material, visual, literary, and political cultures, Catherine E. Kelly demonstrates how American thinkers acknowledged the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority. Judgments about art, architecture, literature, poetry, and the theater became an arena for considering political issues ranging from government structures and legislative representation to qualifications for citizenship and the meaning of liberty itself. Additionally, if taste prompted political debate, it also encouraged affinity grounded in a shared national identity. In the years following independence, ordinary women and men reassured themselves that taste revealed larger truths about an individual's character and potential for republican citizenship. Did an early national vocabulary of taste, then, with its privileged visuality, register beyond the debates over the ratification of the Constitution? Did it truly extend beyond political and politicized discourse to inform the imaginative structures and material forms of everyday life? Republic of Taste affirms that it did, although not in ways that anyone could have predicted at the conclusion of the American Revolution.