[PDF] Charles Willson Peale And His World eBook

Author : Charles Willson Peale
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Painters
ISBN :

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Traces the life of the eighteenth-century artist, Charles Wilson Peale, discusses his study of natural history, and examines his paintings of American society.

Author : Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393057003

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Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.

Author : David C. Ward
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2004-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520239601

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It links the artist's autobiography to his painting, illuminating the man, his art, and his times. Peale emerges for the first time as that particularly American phenomenon: the self-made man."

Author : Alexander Nemerov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2001-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520224981

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"This book is mind-blowing. Nemerov is a groundbreaking thinker in his field."—John Wilmerding, Princeton University "This is a book for all serious Americanists."—Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring Independence "Each haunting and delicately wrought canvas expands as Nemerov writes about it, so that his interpretive work both mirrors and supplements the wondrous intensity of the paintings themselves."—Ellen Handler Spitz, Museums of the Mind "Underneath their apparent simplicity, Raphaelle Peale's still lifes glow mysteriously in the dark light of their making. Peale transformed the common items of the early-nineteenth-century kitchen and market into explorations of the American unconscious. Now, writing as coolly and lucidly as Peale painted, Alexander Nemerov has unpeeled those still lifes in a tour de force of formalistic analysis. Through close interrogation of these small, hermetic images, Nemerov's book reveals the whole world of early America, in the process bringing us as close as possible to the genius of Raphaelle Peale."—David C. Ward, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "This is a dazzling study, lively and imaginative, of an important body of work. Nemerov's novel arguments regarding still life in general and Raphaelle Peale in particular reveal much about the art, the man, and the times. It is a thoughtful and provocative book, certain to generate interest and debate. "—Charles C. Eldredge, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture, University of Kansas "A triumph of interpretation! Not since Michael Fried's groundbreaking account of Thomas Eakins has a critic so reimagined the very terms by which we see painting. Nemerov's account singlehandedly catapults a painter we had previously considered to be interesting, but minor, into the forefront of discussions about American art during the early National Period. The Body of Raphaelle Peale will no doubt spark the beginning of an exciting revival of scholarship in American Romantic painting."—Bryan J. Wolf, author of Romantic Re-Vision

Author : Charles Willson Peale
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300075472

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This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation’s significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by describing his difficult early years as an apprentice to a saddlemaker, and he then tells how he became an artist, one who eventually painted more than one thousand portraits of the generation that won American independence and established the Republic. He writes of his service in the Philadelphia militia during the American Revolution and of his fighting at the Battle of Princeton. He explains his involvement in Philadelphia’s radical republican politics and the difficulties this caused his family. He discusses his involvement in the founding of such cultural institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and his museum of natural history and art, the latter an institution he hoped would be his legacy. He recounts his experiences as a farmer and agrarian reformer and as an inventor (of fireplaces, a vapor bath, and the first American bridge design). Finally he includes a great deal of material on his wives and children, providing a matchless account of an American family in the early Republic.