American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world
2013
759.13 A213 2013
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Title
American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world
Published
Houston : The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013.
Description
xii, 258 p., [1] folded double leaves of plates : colored ill., colored ports. ; ages cm
Call Number
759.13 A213 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)836557735
Note
"This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from October 6, 2013, to January 5, 2014."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: London: the artists and their arena. Brothers-in-arms? Copley, West, and the Royal Academy / By Martin Postle -- A temple of history painting: West's Newman Street studio and art collection / By Kaylin H. Weber -- Reverberated enjoyment: prints, printmakers, and publishers in late-eighteenth century London / By James Clifton -- North America: West and the middle ground. At the wood's edge: Benjamin West's The Death of Wolfe and the middle ground / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Men of the middle ground: the visual culture of native-white diplomacy in eighteenth-century North America / By Janet Catherine Berlo -- Italy: Copley on the grand tour. A remembrance of what we have seen: Copley takes the grand tour / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Benjamin West and Italy / By Christopher Lloyd -- Atlantic and Pacific: Copley and the sea. Like gudgeons to a worm: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the shark and the cultures of natural history / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Blacks in the casta paintings of New Spain / By Donna Pierce -- Coda. Laying siege: West, Copley, and the battle of history painting / By Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber -- Turner, West, and the end of contemporary history painting / By Leo Costello.
L2013M154
Essays and more than 200 images offer an account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: London: the artists and their arena. Brothers-in-arms? Copley, West, and the Royal Academy / By Martin Postle -- A temple of history painting: West's Newman Street studio and art collection / By Kaylin H. Weber -- Reverberated enjoyment: prints, printmakers, and publishers in late-eighteenth century London / By James Clifton -- North America: West and the middle ground. At the wood's edge: Benjamin West's The Death of Wolfe and the middle ground / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Men of the middle ground: the visual culture of native-white diplomacy in eighteenth-century North America / By Janet Catherine Berlo -- Italy: Copley on the grand tour. A remembrance of what we have seen: Copley takes the grand tour / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Benjamin West and Italy / By Christopher Lloyd -- Atlantic and Pacific: Copley and the sea. Like gudgeons to a worm: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the shark and the cultures of natural history / By Emily Ballew Neff -- Blacks in the casta paintings of New Spain / By Donna Pierce -- Coda. Laying siege: West, Copley, and the battle of history painting / By Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber -- Turner, West, and the end of contemporary history painting / By Leo Costello.
L2013M154
Essays and more than 200 images offer an account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West.
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