Research Catalog

Title

American encounters : genre painting and everyday life.

Publication

• Chicago : Terra Foundation for American Art, [2012]
• [Seattle] : University of Washington Press, [2012]

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Additional Authors

• Brownlee, Peter John.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Description

67 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm

Summary

"Genre painting flourished in the U.S. during the mid-19th century. These narrative scenes depicting the everyday activities of stock or typed characters captivated American audiences. Delineating distinctly American characters, often through the exploration of racial, regional, or class differences, genre painting, like landscape, was often called upon as a vehicle for expression of cultural nationalism. Two paintings from the Louvre represent the Dutch and English schools, key sources on which genre painters in the U.S. drew in developing their own idiom. These rich genre paintings, alongside three outstanding American examples, enable the exploration of a variety of interrelated themes including the development of character types, confrontations between them, the spaces of their confrontations, the role of the senses as well as music and narrative, and the graphic reproduction and dissemination of genre paintings in the form of prints."--

Subject

• Genre painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• National characteristics, American, in art
• ART > General
• ART > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
• ART > Human Figure
• Genre painting, American > 19th century

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition New Frontier II: l'art Américain entre au Louvre au sources de la peinture de genre américaine, at the Louvre, Jan. 19-Apr. 22, 2013; and, American encounters: Genre painting and everyday life, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, May 11-Aug. 12, 2013; and the High Museum of Art, Sept. 14, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014. This catalogue accompanies the second of four planned exhibitions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Directors' Foreword -- American Genre Painting: An Art of Encounter / Peter John Brownlee -- Object Texts.

ISBN

• 9780295992693 (pbk.)
• 0295992697 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012045371

OCLC

• 818866213
• SCSB-10278478

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library