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Trouble in Paradise
Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art
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Alan Wallach
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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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 historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.
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Alan Wallach, Ph.D. (1973), is the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at the College of William and Mary.
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November 4, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004711754
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468
eBook ISBN:
9789004711754
Keywords for this book
American Landscape Painting; Thomas Cole; Hudson River School; U.S. Art Museums; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum Ethics; Historiography of American Art History; Luminism; Social History of Art; Panoramic Vision; Meyer Schapiro; Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Grant Wood; Norman Rockwell
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This book is especially relevant for academic libraries, art libraries, art museum libraries, historians of American art, undergraduate and graduate art history students, undergraduate and graduate American Studies students, art museum professionals, historians of American art, specialists in the history of the United States, students of American history and American literature.
