Picturing

Format:: Online Resource
Language:: English
Imprint:: Chicago : Terra Foundation For American Art, 2016
Subject:: Art and society - United States
Art, American
Image (Philosophy)
Art and society
United States
Contributor:: DeLue, Rachael Ziady, editor
Terra Foundation for American Art, publisher
ISBN:: 9780300256789, 0300256787, 9780932171580, and 0932171583
Series:: Terra Foundation essays
Description:: 1 online resource (216 pages) : 56 illustrations
Notes:: Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 5, 2020)
Contents:: Did Joshua Reynolds Paint His Pictures? The Transatlantic Work of Picturing in an Age of Chymical Reproduction / Matthew C. Hunter -- Magical Pictures; or, Observations on Lightning and Thunder, Occasion'd by a Portrait of Dr. Franklin / Michael Gaudio -- Conjuring in Fog: Eadweard Muybridge at Point Reyes / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Learning from Cézanne: Stein's Working with and through Picturing / Ulla Haselstein -- Pictorialism as Theory / Robin Kelsey
Summary:: "The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As Picturing convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about the nature and capacity of images and formed responses to some of most pressing problems of picturing: What is an image, and why make one? What do images do? ... Picturing brings together essays by a distinguished international group of scholars who discuss the creation and consumption of images from the early modern period through the end of the twentieth century. Some of the contributions focus on art critical texts, like Gertrude Stein's portrait of Cézanne, while others have as their point of departure particular artworks, from a portrait of Benjamin Franklin to Eadweard Muybridge's nineteenth-century photographs of the California Coast. Works that addressed images and image making were not confined to the academy; they spilled out into poetry, literature, theater, and philosophy, and the essays' considerations likewise range freely, from painting to natural history illustrations, travel narratives, and popular fiction. Together, the contributions demonstrate a rich deliberation that thoroughly debunks the notion that American art is merely derivative of a European tradition."--Publisher's description
Call Number:: N6505 .P53 2016eb