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Art in a season of revolution : painters, artisans, and patrons in early America / Margaretta M. Lovell.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-146687

Description

x, 341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Art, American 18th century.
Art, Colonial
Art patronage History 18th century.
Art and society History 18th century.
Beeldende kunsten.
Patronage.

Originator

Lovell, Margaretta M.

Contents

Painters and their customers -- The picture in the painting -- The empirical eye : Copley's women and the case of the blue dress -- The remembering eye : Copley's men and the case of Joshua Henshaw -- The family : painterly and social constructions -- The drawing in the painting -- Money, art, family, and the cabinetmakers of Newport.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

Publisher Series

Early American studies

Description

x, 341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Notes

Maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-321) and index.

ISBN

0812238427 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812238426 (cloth : alk. paper)

Call Number

Stacks N6515.L682005

Places

New England
New England.
7.150.

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