Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948 - Hardcover

Cohen-Solal, Annie; Hurwitz-Attias, Laurie

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ISBN 10: 0679450939 ISBN 13: 9780679450931

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

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Describes the dramatic transformation in American art, which began with the Paris Salon of 1867, as a vast group of American artists settled in Paris, the art capital of the period, to study with the great French painters, and continued through the twentieth century as the finest French artists began to leave Paris for New York, the new cultural capital of the world. 20,000 first printing.

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r the Civil War, a resurgent America strode brashly onto the hallowed ground of the Paris salon to present its most distinguished painters in the Exposition Universelle of 1867. Their offereings included majestic Western waterfalls, magnificent portraits, sprawling landscapes--the cream of a nation ready to assert itself culturally as it had begun to do so economically. The Americans sat back to bask in anticipated applause.

But their confidence would be shattered when the luminaries of the French Academy condemned the spectacle as being unworthy of the great nation that had produced it. The rebuke provoked widespread soulsearching in America: Why was the land of Melville and Poe unable to produce paintings of comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?

In this magnificent historical panorama, Annie Cohen-Solal shows how American pragmatism furnished the solution: Learn from the best. The French were then the undisputed maste

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679450939
• ISBN 13: 9780679450931
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 436