Trouble in Paradise : Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art /

A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called "Luminism," the rise of the American art museum, the his...

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Main Author: Wallach, Alan (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 331.
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505 0 |t Acknowledgements -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1 Circa 1977: State of the Field -- 1 John Wilmerding's American Art (1977) -- 2 Trouble in Paradise (1977) -- Part 2 Six Critical Museum Studies -- 3 Rereading an anti- catalog : Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998) -- 4 'Norman Rockwell' at the Guggenheim (2003) -- 5 The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict (2006) -- 6 The Unethical Art Museum (2006) -- 7 Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B.Durand's Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008) -- 8 The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010) -- Part 3 Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School -- 9 Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993) -- 10 Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994) -- 11 Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as Anti-Pastoral (2002) -- 12 Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007) -- 13 Rethinking 'Luminism': Taste, Class, and Aestheticizing Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011) -- 14 Patronage and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023) -- Part 4 Short Takes -- 15 Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005) -- 16 Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979) -- 17 Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991) -- 18 Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022) -- Part 5 Historiographical Reflections -- 19 Meyer Schapiro's Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997) -- 20 Oliver Larkin's Art and Life in America : Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001) -- 21 On the Social History of American Art (2015) -- 22 Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015) -- 23 Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017) -- 24 'A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject' (2019) -- Coda -- Capitalism and the History of United States Art (2023) -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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