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Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes / Paul Staiti.
- Title
- Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes / Paul Staiti.
- Author
- Staiti, Paul J.
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
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- Description
- 389 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- A "chronicle of the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic...Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart."--
- "The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history being made by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Ever since the passing of the last eyewitnesses to the Revolution, their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning, generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged "--
- Subject
- Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
- Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
- Trumbull, John, 1756-1843
- West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
- Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
- Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
- Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
- Trumbull, John, 1756-1843
- West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- American Revolution (1775-1783)
- 1700-1799
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- Painters > United States > Biography
- Painting > History > United States > 18th century
- ART / American / General
- ART / History / General
- ART / Techniques / Painting
- Painters
- Painting > Political aspects
- United States > Art and the revolution. > Revolution, 1775-1783
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- History.
- Art
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Art and the American Revolution -- Charles Willson Peale's war -- Philadelphia's founding artist -- Benjamin West's peace -- John Singleton Copley's patriots -- John Adams' piece of vanity -- John Trumbull's martyrs -- Thomas Jefferson's invitation -- Gilbert Stuart's Washington -- John Trumbull's second act.
- ISBN
- 9781632864659 (hardback)
- 1632864657 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2016007703
- OCLC
- 933590402
- SCSB-10289610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library