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

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)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 331.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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American Studies.
North America.

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Call Number: F1418

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.