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9780271060675 Academic Inspection Copy

Critical Shift

Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
  • ISBN-13: 9780271060675
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Karen L. Georgi
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 02/02/2015
  • Format: Paperback 152 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Art techniques & principles [AGZ]
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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.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Rereading James Jackson Jarves’s Art-Idea

2 Clarence Cook and Jarves: Fact, Feeling, and the Discourse of Truthfulness in Art

3 A Further Look at Clarence Cook and the “Revolution” in Art

4 William J. Stillman’s Ruskinian Criticism: Metaphor and Essential Meaning

5 Art Discourse After Ruskin: Time and History in Art

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“One cannot embark upon an analysis of how historical periodization took shape without being keenly aware of one’s own historical desires and their enactment in writing; these thoughtful concerns inform Georgi’s philosophy of history and undergird her historiographic enterprise. . . . Given the need for thorough, subtle, and complex analyses of historical art criticism in America, this investigation offers the tantalizing glimpse of what such projects might look like, if done with great restraint and attention to the intertwining of rhetoric and belief. The care with which she sets forth the boundaries of her study demonstrates how sensitive Georgi is to the failures any such ‘comprehensive’ study might risk in creating its own mythologized history.”

—Emily Gephart, Journal of Art Historiography

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