Author: Brenda Ayres
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1317025571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated status of women writers.
Author: Elliot A. Knight
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 2019-07-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0817320105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists
Author: Jules Heller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 1135638829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Newport Art Museum (R.I.)
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781584650188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In 1992, the Newport Art Museum assembled an exhibition of 223 portraits of Newporters painted over a period of three centuries. It presented not just a gallery of the Newport elite and some of its haute bourgeoisie, but also a showcase of the most famous portraitists and portrait styles throughout United States history. Artists represented in this collection range from the great colonial portraitists Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, and John Singleton Copley to such modern figures as Diego Rivera, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0810918692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bader Antart
Publisher: Koushik Das
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13:
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Author: National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Publisher: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Since 1805, the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy has amassed one of the most distinguished American art collections in the world, comprising almost 1,700 paintings, over 300 sculptures, and 12,000 works on paper. This catalogue is the first illustrated publication to list all the paintings. It is also the first of a series that will present the entire collection to the public and the scholarly community. This catalogue gives basic information on 1,679 works: 1,621 oils on canvas, 5 artist's palettes, 43 miniatures, and 10 miscellaneous objects, including tapestries by Alexander Calder and stained glass by John La Farge. Over 900 illustrations provide an armchair tour of the collection." -- Page ix.