The Art-makers: An Informal History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Nineteenth-century America

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Courier Corporation, 01‏/01‏/1982 - 514 من الصفحات
A lively and unconventional history of the heroic "art-makers" of the last century—their struggles, their attempt "to change the climate of the arts," their successes. 211 stunning illustrations of great art.

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A Point of Departure
3
Art in a Cold Climate
7
Parthenons for the People
40
The End of a Beginning
71
The StatueMakers
111
The Age of Downing
160
New York City
171
Little People in Big Places
191
A Quartet of Romantics
381
The ArtMakers as Tastemakers
408
Palaces Palaces Palaces
447
A Point of Arrival
482
Sources and Acknowledgments
493
Index
499
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia
503
Christ Church Lancaster Massachusetts
511

Big People in Little Places
227
Convention and Invention
267
Bronze Was for Heroes
297
The Eye on the Object
341
Dead Man Revived by Touching the Bones of the Prophet
519
Elijah in the Desert
528
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