Critical Shift : Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art /
Georgi, Karen L.
Critical Shift : Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art / Karen L. Georgi. - 1 online resource (152 p.) : 8 illustrations
Frontmatter -- 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
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American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography.It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271062471
10.1515/9780271062471 doi
Art criticism--History--United States--19th century.
Art, American--Historiography.
ART / American / General.
Art-Idea. Clarence Cook Art History Art. Criticism Nineteenth-Century American Art. James Jackson Jarves. Karen L. Georgi. William J. Stillman. united states. us. usa.
N7485.U6 / G46 2013eb
701/.180973
Critical Shift : Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art / Karen L. Georgi. - 1 online resource (152 p.) : 8 illustrations
Frontmatter -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography.It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271062471
10.1515/9780271062471 doi
Art criticism--History--United States--19th century.
Art, American--Historiography.
ART / American / General.
Art-Idea. Clarence Cook Art History Art. Criticism Nineteenth-Century American Art. James Jackson Jarves. Karen L. Georgi. William J. Stillman. united states. us. usa.
N7485.U6 / G46 2013eb
701/.180973