Making American taste : narrative art for a new democracy / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati ; contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Ella M. Foshay, Kimberly Orcutt ; [authors, Barbara Dayer Gallati ... [et al.]].
Gallati, Barbara Dayer.; Ferber, Linda S.; Foshay, Ella M., 1948-; Orcutt, Kimberly.; New-York Historical Society.
2011
ND1451.5 .M35 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Making American taste : narrative art for a new democracy / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati ; contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Ella M. Foshay, Kimberly Orcutt ; [authors, Barbara Dayer Gallati ... [et al.]].
ISBN 9781904832768
1904832768
9780916141172 (pbk.)
0916141179 (pbk.)
Imprint [New York] : New-York Historical Society ; London : In Association with D Giles Ltd., c2011.
Language English
Description 324 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 x 30 cm.
Call Number ND1451.5 .M35 2011
Summary "Making American Taste features fifty-five works from the New-York Historical Society's collection that cast new light on both the history of American art and the formation of American cultural ideals during a crucial period from the 1830s to the late 1860s. By integrating history, literary and religious subjects with now better-known examples of rural and domestic genre, the exhibition explores the broad range of styles and narrative themes that appealed to nineteenth-century Americans seeking cultural refinement. The exhibition includes Louis Lang's The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, 1862, a Civil War masterpiece rediscovered, as well as works by such canonical artists as Benjamin West, Asher B. Durand, William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson. Additionally, significant works by artists who were major figures in their own time, such as Daniel Huntington, Henry Peters Gray and T.H. Matteson, but who have been virtually ignored in current American art surveys, are also on exhibition. The reintegration of these "forgotten" works into the larger art-historical framework challenges the canon of current taste that has elevated genre to a privileged position at the expense of other narrative modes (including Stuart and Tudor, Shakespearean, and idealized subjects inspired by European masters). Together the works expand our understanding of the tastes of the nineteenth-century New Yorkers whose gifts formed the New-York Historical Society's core collections."--Publisher's website.
Note Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New-York Historical Society, New York, Nov. 11, 2011-Aug. 19, 2012, and followed by 3 other venues.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Gallati, Barbara Dayer.
Ferber, Linda S.
Foshay, Ella M., 1948-
Orcutt, Kimberly.
Added Corporate Author New-York Historical Society.
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Foreword / Louise Mirrer
Preface and acknowledgments / Linda S. Ferber
Note to the reader
Taste, art, and cultural power in nineteenth-century America / Barbara Dayer Gallati
"Nature's Nation": American taste and landscape painting, 1825-1876 / Linda S. Ferber
Luman Reed and Robert L. Stuart: a double portrait / Ella M. Foshay
Artists' biographies and catalogue entries / Barbara Dayer Gallati and Kimberly Orcutt.

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