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American Encounters
The Body Politic 1828-1865
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/21/2013

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The Architect's Dream

Thomas Cole

1840


Turning to Gothic America. Egyptian pyramid and hypostyle hall, Greek temple, Roman aqueduct in background. In shadows, Gothic church seems to be glowing to life mimicking the points of trees. Figure turned to Gothic represents a turn from the authority of classical design ideas.

Romanticism and Sentimentality, turn from clarity and symmetry and rationality to emotion, mystery, and irregular diagnols.

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"Lyndhurst" near Tarrytown, NY

Alexander Jackson Davis

1838


Antebellum America attention to visual effects, Gothic style. Structure irregular and unpredictable.

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Silver Sauceboat

Anthony Rasch & Co.

1810


Ancient Egypt signaled concern with death and immortality. Combines Egyptian tastes to items of household use. Pleasureable discomfort = pain and terror experience at safe remove. Antebellum

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Domestic Happiness

Lilly Martin Spencer

1849


19th Century, men earned living outside the house and women's job to raise morals and have a warm home for men to come home to.

Wife in charge of the home and children, safe refuge from external world.

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Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer

1856


Men had to go out and buy food, not growing it anymore. Had to bring home to wife.

Sentimentality

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Beatrice Cenci

Harriet Hosmer

1856


Plotted to murder abusive father, beautiful/calm woman facing unrighteous fate.

Hosmer didn't carve, designed in clay and plaster molds. 

Figure's serenity and faith (rosary) confirm all that sentimental culture wanted to believe: women's purity, selflessness, and devotion to family.

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The Greek Slave 

Hiram Powers

1843


Most famous sentimentality. 1st nude sculpture to be accpeted, rosary beads and left hand covers up. Committment to faith and sentimental propriety. Tour aroung Europe and America.

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The Old Indian Arrowmaker and His Daughter

Edmonia Lewis

1872


Half AA / Half Native, Explored racial concerns in a neoclassical idiom. Not depicted as a doomed race, endows them with a craft (hardwork and independence).

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Shaker Oval Boxes

Mid 19th Century


Swallowtailed Joints 

Just boxes.

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An Emblem of the Heavenly Sphere

Polly Collins

1854


Record of spiritual visions. People seen as instruments.

 

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Norwegian Rosemaling
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Marimaid

Mary Ann Willson

1810-25


Pennsylvania "Dutch" Yuscht for Schnee = Just for Pretty

 

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Birth and Baptismal Certificate for George Manger

Friedrich Bandel

1810


Fraktur - fractured writing

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Earthenware face jugs

South Carolina

1820's


African American communities. Jug form important in Africa

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Saint Tammany Weathervane

mid 19th century

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Baltimore Album Quilt

Mary Simon and Others

1847-50


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Jane Ann Campbell

Ammi Phillips

1820


Drapery in background pulling away from folk art. Similar to Freake.

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Girl in Red Dress

Ammi Phillips

1830-5


Flat.

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The Peaceable Kingdom

Edward Hicks

1820-1840


Vernacular traditions.

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The Declaration of Independence

John Trumbull

1786-97


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After a Long Cruise (Salts Ashore)

John Carlin

1857


Combining street-scene reporting with moral commentary. Transforms racial and class antagonism into benign form of humor

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Post Office

David Gilmour Blythe

1859-63


Children are demonic and go off base human impulse, darkest outlook of any US antebellum genre painter. Satirical dismay with modern cvilization. Corruption trumps honesty and art records the vices of the times

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War News from Mexico

Richard Caton Woodville

1848


Lively depiction of home front at a time of national crisis. Outcome of war had a direct bearing on how far west congress would permit slavery.

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The Gallery of the Louvre

Samuel F. B. Morse

1833


Production and distribution of culture as its subject. Attitude toward Europe = learn from it, admire it, do not be in awe of it. 

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the Painter's Triumph

William Sidney Mount

1838


Scoffs at high-mindedness of Louvre. Free of the past, turned back on imported culture.

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Farmer's Nooning 

William Sidney Mount

1836


Typical lazy blacks? Anti-abolitionist political allegory? Blacks being roused from long sleep of subsrvience?

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Eel Spearing at Setauket

William Sidney Mount

1845


Elemental harmony in keeping the two seperate. Coexisting in peaceful/productive balance

 

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The Money Diggers

John Quidor

1832


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Antony van Corlear Brought into the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant

John Quidor

1839


anti-irish sentiment. both suggest animostiy against irish could spill over into antagonism against blacks. Propaganda

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