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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Leiden ; Boston :
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2025.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
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- 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.