Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking

ISBN-13: 9781032179087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Wendy N. E. Ikemoto

Opis

 Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair, opening with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic theory.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Opening the Space Between: Antebellum American Pendant Paintings

Chapter 1

Putting the "Rip" in Rip Van Winkle: Historical Absence in John Quidor’s Companion Paintings

Chapter 2

Taking a Contemplative Look: Visual Devotion in Thomas Cole’s Departure and Return

Chapter 3

The Missing Pacific: The Expeditionary Blank in Titian Ramsay Peale’s Kilauea Landscapes

Epilogue

After the Antebellum: Pendants during the Civil War and Postbellum Era

Works Cited

O autorze

Wendy N. E. Ikemoto earned her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. She taught at Harvard and The Courtauld Institute of Art in London and served as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at Vassar College. She has published in American Art and The Burlington Magazine.