In the decades following the American Civil War and leading up to the First World War, a definitive shift in power took place between Spain and the United States. This original book explores American artists' perceptions of Spain during this period of turmoil and demonstrates how their responses to Spanish art helped to answer emerging, complex questions about American national identity. M. Elizabeth Boone focuses on works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, and other ...
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In the decades following the American Civil War and leading up to the First World War, a definitive shift in power took place between Spain and the United States. This original book explores American artists' perceptions of Spain during this period of turmoil and demonstrates how their responses to Spanish art helped to answer emerging, complex questions about American national identity. M. Elizabeth Boone focuses on works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, and other American artists who traveled to Spain to study the achievements of such great masters as Murillo, Vel???zquez, and Goya. The resulting American paintings, some well known and others now largely forgotten, provide intriguing insights not only into the 19th-century American struggle to define itself as an imperial power but also into the relations between the United States and the Spanish-speaking world today.
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Add this copy of Vistas De Espana: American Views of Art and Life in to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Lloyd Zimmer Books & Maps rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chanute, KS, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Yale University Press.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Sm 4to. 270 pages. Tight and clean copy with only slight signs of use. Dust jacket shows a couple of surface scuffs, though remains bright and clean. Jacket is now in a clear protective sleeve.
Add this copy of Vistas De Espana: American Views of Art and Life in to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Kenneth Mallory, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Yale University Press.
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VG-(Text is fine; illus. as usual become a casualty of the photocopying process but are included here. ) Dissertation. Photocopied from microfilm by UMI. Blue wraps, 421 pp., BW illus. Dissertation. "Explores the Spanish subject paintings of six American artists active during the years 1860 to 1898. Samuel Colman, George Henry Hall, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase all visited the Iberian peninsula during this period....The goal in Spain appears to have been two-fold: while rounding out their educations through the study of Murillo, Velazquez and the Spanish Old Masters, American artists were simultaneously able to experience and paint a cultural dramatically different from their own." (abstract) Boone went on to publish a larger account of this topic with a similar title. She now teaches at the University of Alberta.
