Jules Prown is renowned as a historian of American art and a pioneer in the study of material culture, a discipline that attempts to achieve a more profound understanding of individuals and societies using works of art as tangible evidence. This important book celebrates Prown's distinguished career, bringing together eighteen of his most influential essays, along with a new introductory chapter, an intellectual autobiography that explains the evolution of his life's work. The volume begins with theoretical essays that document Prown's thinking as a cultural art historian, followed by the presentation of a number of his finest writings on American art. These pieces focus on the work of key eighteenth-century American artists-Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and John Trumbull-who painted in England as well as in America, and on the work of such major nineteenth-century artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. The essays reveal Prown's trajectory as an art historian: the earlier ones are examples of more traditional art historical methodology, as Prown investigates formalist and iconographic techniques, and the later ones demonstrate his developing interest in unpacking cultural meaning from objects. What results is a remarkable collection that clearly conveys the import of Prown's contribution to the study of American art and material culture.

Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture

Arts & Photography

Prown, Jules David

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art)

Allen, Brian

Robinson, Duncan

Baskett, John

Reese, William S.

The Yale Center for British Art stands as the final masterpiece of the great 20th-century American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901--1974). It received the 2005 American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award honoring “significant architectural landmarks . . . that have withstood the test of time.” This handsome volume, originally published for the Center’s grand opening in 1977, is a timely reminder of the Center’s architectural distinction.  Contemporaneous photographs and an enlightening essay by Jules David Prown provide an account of the architecture, design, and circumstances of its commission and building. A new foreword by its current director, Amy Meyers, brings the celebration of the Center into the present day.

The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art

Architecture

YC British Art

A case study in the renowned architect’s thought and practice, showcasing the museum that was his last great design\nThis book analyzes the form and function of the final building designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974): the Yale Center for British Art. As the Center’s first director, author Jules David Prown was instrumental in Kahn’s selection as the new building’s architect in 1969. He was present throughout the processes of planning and construction until the year of Kahn’s death, three years before the Center opened. Relying on direct quotations from Kahn, and using photographs and drawings, Prown distills and articulates the architect’s philosophy as it is embodied in the Center.\nBeginning with this volume, the series On Center will explore the collections, history, and professional activities of the Yale Center for British Art.\nDistributed for the Yale Center for British Art

On Center: The Late Architectural Philosophy of Louis I. Kahn as Expressed in the Yale Center for British Art

The story of American painting begins in the Colonial period, in the seventeenth century. This book traces that history from the earliest surviving colonial paintings (all of which are portraits) down to the famous Armory Show held in New York in 1913. Includes 70 reproductions in full color.

American Painting, from Its Beginnings to the Armory Show

Rizzoli

Two volume box set: Vol. 1: In America 1738-1774; Vol. 2: In England 1774-1815. Black and white plates. Color frontispiece in vol. 1. 491 pages, continuous pagination, not including plates. 678 illustrations.

John Singleton Copley (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Studies in American Art) (2 Volumes)

Harvard University Press

American painting: From the Colonial period to the present

Yale Center for British Art

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Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture

Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art)

The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art

On Center: The Late Architectural Philosophy of Louis I. Kahn as Expressed in the Yale Center for British Art

American Painting, from Its Beginnings to the Armory Show

John Singleton Copley (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Studies in American Art) (2 Volumes)

American painting: From the Colonial period to the present

The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art