Americans in Paris 1850–1910 represents the profound French influence—both in style and subject—on American painters following the Civil War. There was a great deal of French art in America, mainly in the hands of urban industrialists and financiers eager to display their wealth. Meanwhile, American artists traveled to France to study under the masters, either at the École des Beaux-Arts or at one of the independent academies or studios. Paris proved immensely appealing as a locale in which artists were supported and valued, cultural life was rich, the surrounding countryside ispiring, and the cost of living relatively low. The landscapes and human figures favored by French painters offered a nostalgic appeal that American artists translated into a national vernacular. 
Alternating beautiful color plates of some of the most influential artists from America and France—among them, James McNeill Whistler, Kenyon Cox, Mary Cassatt, Camille Cordot, and Honoré Daumier—with informative essays describing biographical, historical, and stylistic influences, this volume brings to life this pivotal and creatively vibrant moment in art history.

Americans in Paris 1850-1910: The Academy, the Salon, the Studio, and the Artists Colony

Arts & Photography

Weisberg, Gabriel P.

Hardy, George

Weinberg, Barbara H.

History & Criticism

Oklahoma Museum of Arts

Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900-1500

Mickenberg, David

The changes inherent in nineteenth-century modernization gave rise to significant expansion of subject matter and ideas for artistic expression. Reflecting the taste of a newly established middle class created by industrialization, globalization, and the growth of the city, nineteenth-century narrative art parallels the developments of the popular novel and the illustrated magazine. Artist as Narrator is an exploration of the important developments in narrative art, organized in six sections: paintings inspired by literature; those based on Greco-Roman mythology; ones depicting religion and history; others of rural life; paintings of new urban subjects; and prints exemplifying a mix of these subjects.

Artist As Narrator: Nineteenth Century Narrative Art in England And France

George, Hardy S.

This volume pays homage to the icons of Mexican painting: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Known as the three leading Mexican muralists, these artists, along with Gunther Gerzso and Luis Nishizawa, also produced relatively small scale works in which the harsh life of the Mexican peasant and the brutality of civil war is portrayed with a directness and honesty not always seen in the murals. Mexican Masters expresses the hopes, desires, idealism, and culture of early twentieth-century Mexico through its artists.

Mexican Masters: Rivera, Orozco, And Siqueiros, Selections from the Museo De Arte Carrillo Gil

Painting

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