Painting Dissent : : Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites / / Sophie Lynford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Lynford, Sophie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 112 color illus.

A revelatory history of the first artist collective in the United States and its effort to reshape nineteenth-century art, culture, and politicsThe American Pre-Raphaelites founded a uniquely interdisciplinary movement composed of politically radical abolitionist artists and like-minded architects, critics, and scientists. Active during the Civil War, this dynamic collective united in a spirit of protest, seeking sweeping reforms of national art and culture. Painting Dissent recovers the American Pre-Raphaelites from the margins of history and situates them at the center of transatlantic debates about art, slavery, education, and politics.Artists such as Thomas Charles Farrer and John Henry Hill championed a new style of landscape painting characterized by vibrant palettes, antipicturesque compositions, and meticulous brushwork. Their radicalism, however, was not solely one of style. Sophie Lynford traces how the American Pre-Raphaelites proclaimed themselves catalysts of a wide-ranging reform movement that staged politically motivated interventions in multiple cultural arenas, from architecture and criticism to collecting, exhibition design, and higher education. She examines how they publicly rejected their prominent contemporaries, the artists known as the Hudson River School, and how they offered incisive critiques of antebellum society by importing British models of landscape theory and practice.Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of archival material, Painting Dissent transforms our understanding of how American artists depicted the nation during the most turbulent decades of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE America’s First Pre-Raphaelite: William James Stillman -- CHAPTER TWO The American Pre-Raphaelite Landscape and Thomas Charles Farrer -- CHAPTER THREE Architects of Reform: Peter Bonnett Wight and Russell Sturgis, Jr. -- CHAPTER FOUR Pre-Raphaelites in the West: Clarence King and John Henry Hill -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photography Credits