The Art And Thought Of John La Farge
Download The Art And Thought Of John La Farge full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Art And Thought Of John La Farge ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Art and Thought of John La Farge
Author | : Katie Kresser |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351546457 |
Download The Art and Thought of John La Farge Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America offers an unprecedented portrait of one of the most celebrated artists of the Gilded Age and opens a window onto nineteenth-century American culture. The book reveals how the work of John La Farge contributed to a rich philosophical dialogue concerning the trustworthiness of human perception. In his struggle against a 'common truth' of iconic symbols presented by a new mass visual culture, La Farge developed a subversive approach to visual representation that focused attention not on the artwork itself, but on the complex, real encounter of artist, subject and medium from which the artwork came. Katie Kresser charts La Farge's efforts to assert his own reality - his own intrinsic uniqueness - in a postwar society that increasingly based personal identity on standardized vocational labels and economic productivity. La Farge's work is contrasted with that of Kenyon Cox, James Whistler and Henry Adams, all of whom (for La Farge) had fallen prey to the crass new visual environment - albeit in very different ways. This innovative study suggests that La Farge dealt with issues still relevant in a world characterized by ubiquitous mass media and the proliferation of 'normative' visions.
The Art and Thought of John La Farge Related Books
Pages: 221
Pages: 237
Pages: 138
Pages: 54
Pages: 374