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History of Art

From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Landscape Painting in the Americas

Brownlee Peter John, Piccoli Valeria, Uhlyarik Georgiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300211504, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 260 colour illus.

As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North a...

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History of Art

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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America

Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North

Brownlee Peter John, Burns Sarah, Dillon Diane, Greene Daniel, Manning Stevens Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226061856, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 90 colour plates

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as...

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