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Yankee Stonecutters : The First American School of Sculpture 1800–1850 / Albert Teneyck Gardner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1945]Copyright date: ©1945Description: 1 online resource (100 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231946902
  • 9780231899932
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 735.73
LOC classification:
  • NB210 .G3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Introductory Note -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Part I. The Ingenious Yankee Mechanic -- 1. National Monument; or, Sculpture and Politics -- 2. Portrait Bust; or, Sculptors and Art Patrons -- 3. Statuary Group; or, Whittler’s Progress -- 4. Clay Figures; or, Some Representative Men -- 5. Graffiti D’ltalia; or, Sketches of Florentine and Roman Art-Life -- 6. The Ingenious Yankee Mechanic; or, The Statuary Business -- Part II. The First American School of Sculpture -- 1. The Precursors: Sculptors, Stonecutters, Carvers, and Modelers In America Before 1800 -- 2. A Biographical Dictionary: American Sculptors Born Between 1800 and 1830 -- 3. The Successors: Some American Sculptors Born Between 1830 and 1850 -- Bibliography -- Plates -- Index
Summary: Presents a history of sculptors and their work from 1800-1850 as a part of the larger pattern of American life with a focus on the two dominant influences of the time, romance and machines.
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Frontmatter -- Introductory Note -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Part I. The Ingenious Yankee Mechanic -- 1. National Monument; or, Sculpture and Politics -- 2. Portrait Bust; or, Sculptors and Art Patrons -- 3. Statuary Group; or, Whittler’s Progress -- 4. Clay Figures; or, Some Representative Men -- 5. Graffiti D’ltalia; or, Sketches of Florentine and Roman Art-Life -- 6. The Ingenious Yankee Mechanic; or, The Statuary Business -- Part II. The First American School of Sculpture -- 1. The Precursors: Sculptors, Stonecutters, Carvers, and Modelers In America Before 1800 -- 2. A Biographical Dictionary: American Sculptors Born Between 1800 and 1830 -- 3. The Successors: Some American Sculptors Born Between 1830 and 1850 -- Bibliography -- Plates -- Index

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Presents a history of sculptors and their work from 1800-1850 as a part of the larger pattern of American life with a focus on the two dominant influences of the time, romance and machines.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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