Compass and clock : defining moments in American culture : 1800, 1850, 1900 / John Wilmerding.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810940965
  • 9780810940963
Other title:
  • Compass & clock [Spine title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Compass and clock.; Online version:: Compass and clock.
Contents:
Introduction: Clockwise America -- Prologue: Articulating Independence -- Circa 1800: Expanding Horizons -- Ideas, Individuals, and Issues -- Jefferson's Visions -- The Peales: Painting and Science -- Noah Webster and American Language -- Circa 1850: Apex and Apogee -- Paradoxes of Tension and Calm -- The Painters' Illuminations: Lane, Bingham, and Church -- The Writers' Renaissance: Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman -- The Architect's Abstractions: Robert Mills -- Circa 1900: Disorientation -- Memoirs, Music, and Meditations -- Inner Sight: Saint-Gaudens, Homer, Peto, and Eakins -- The Self as History and Literature: Henry Adams -- The New Century's New Energies -- Epilogue: Circa 2000.
Review: "In this book a prominent art historian offers a new approach to the study of American intellectual history. By analyzing masterworks of literature as well as art and architecture within their cultural context, he vividly demonstrates how America expressed itself at various crucial stages in the nineteenth century as it evolved into a nation."--Jacket.Summary: "John Wilmerding focuses on three turning points - around 1800, when America began to find its identity as a republic; 1850, a self-confident period of prosperity and growth; and 1900, a time of anxiety over profound changes in the psychological as well as the physical dimension.Summary: The author provides stimulating discussions of the great works of these three periods - from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Portrait to Thoreau's Walden and George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri to The Education of Henry Adams and the late paintings of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer - finding common threads and complementary expressions in the images that writers and visual artists alike drew upon to convey the mood and vision of each distinctive era."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.

Introduction: Clockwise America -- Prologue: Articulating Independence -- Circa 1800: Expanding Horizons -- Ideas, Individuals, and Issues -- Jefferson's Visions -- The Peales: Painting and Science -- Noah Webster and American Language -- Circa 1850: Apex and Apogee -- Paradoxes of Tension and Calm -- The Painters' Illuminations: Lane, Bingham, and Church -- The Writers' Renaissance: Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman -- The Architect's Abstractions: Robert Mills -- Circa 1900: Disorientation -- Memoirs, Music, and Meditations -- Inner Sight: Saint-Gaudens, Homer, Peto, and Eakins -- The Self as History and Literature: Henry Adams -- The New Century's New Energies -- Epilogue: Circa 2000.

"In this book a prominent art historian offers a new approach to the study of American intellectual history. By analyzing masterworks of literature as well as art and architecture within their cultural context, he vividly demonstrates how America expressed itself at various crucial stages in the nineteenth century as it evolved into a nation."--Jacket.

"John Wilmerding focuses on three turning points - around 1800, when America began to find its identity as a republic; 1850, a self-confident period of prosperity and growth; and 1900, a time of anxiety over profound changes in the psychological as well as the physical dimension.

The author provides stimulating discussions of the great works of these three periods - from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Portrait to Thoreau's Walden and George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri to The Education of Henry Adams and the late paintings of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer - finding common threads and complementary expressions in the images that writers and visual artists alike drew upon to convey the mood and vision of each distinctive era."--Jacket.

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