American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
ISBN-10
1588393364
ISBN-13
9781588393364
Series
American Stories
Category
Exhibitions
Pages
222
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors
Helene Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt

Description

They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F.B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand.

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