Measure and Design in American Painting, 1760-1860

Measure and Design in American Painting, 1760-1860
ISBN-10
0429772718
ISBN-13
9780429772719
Category
History
Pages
434
Language
English
Published
2018-12-07
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Lisa Fellows Andrus

Description

First published in 1977. The purpose of this study is to locate the sources for the American style of painting characterised by measure and design – the representation of the specific and familiar according to principles of pictorial order. The reader shall see that there were a variety of conventions available to the artist and that his selection of one or another of them depended upon pragmatic, philosophical, and aesthetic considerations.

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