MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02632cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2012045371
003 DLC
005 20130918075519.0
008 121115s2012 ilua b 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780295992693 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aND1451.5$b.A44 2012
082 00 $a754.0973/074$223
084 $aART015020$aART015100$aART050010$2bisacsh
245 00 $aAmerican encounters :$bgenre painting and everyday life.
264 1 $aChicago :$bTerra Foundation for American Art,$c[2012]
300 $a67 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"Genre painting flourished in the U.S. during the mid-19th century. These narrative scenes depicting the everyday activities of stock or typed characters captivated American audiences. Delineating distinctly American characters, often through the exploration of racial, regional, or class differences, genre painting, like landscape, was often called upon as a vehicle for expression of cultural nationalism.Two paintings from the Louvre represent the Dutch and English schools, key sources on which genre painters in the U.S. drew in developing their own idiom. These rich genre paintings, alongside three outstanding American examples, enable the exploration of a variety of interrelated themes including the development of character types, confrontations between them, the spaces of their confrontations, the role of the senses as well as music and narrative, and the graphic reproduction and dissemination of genre paintings in the form of prints.Genre Painting and Everyday Life accompanies the first of a series of focused exhibitions collaboratively organized by the Musee du Louvre, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aDirectors' Foreword -- American Genre Painting: An Art of Encounter / Peter John Brownlee -- Object Texts.
650 0 $aGenre painting, American$y19th century.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in art.
650 7 $aART / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBrownlee, Peter John.$tAmerican genre painting.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1305/2686474/image/lgcover.4121170.jpg