Moved to tears rethinking the art of the sentimental in the United States /
In 'Moved to Tears,' Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, Bedell argues that major American artists-from John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale in the eighteenth century and Asher Durand and W...
| Main Author: | Bedell, Rebecca Bailey, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Revolutionary art and politics of sentiment: Charles Willson Peale and John Trumbull
- Sentiment and social change: slavery, race, and the art of Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Andrew Jackson Downing and the sentimental home
- Sentimental landscapes
- Sentimental Homer
- Strategic sentimentalism: John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt.