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Redefining American history painting

1996; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 34; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.34-1339

1943-5975

Patricia Burnham, Lucretia Hoover Giese,

Art, Politics, and Modernism

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 Andre 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.