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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790899103321

Autore

Georgi Karen <1966->

Titolo

Critical shift : rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the narratives of nineteenth-century American art / / Karen L. Georgi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-271-06094-8

0-271-06247-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Disciplina

701.180973

Soggetti

Art criticism - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rereading James Jackson Jarves's art-idea -- Clarence Cook and Jarves : fact, feeling, and the discourse of truthfulness in art -- A further look at Clarence Cook and the "revolution" in art -- William J. Stillman's Ruskinian criticism : metaphor and essential meaning -- Art discourse after Ruskin : time and history in art.

Sommario/riassunto

"A reassessment of the writings of the mid-nineteenth-century American art critics James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), Clarence Cook (1828-1900), and William J. Stillman (1828-1901), and their role in the historiography of American art"--Provided by publisher.