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Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art

Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art

Georgi, Karen L.

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryAmerican Art - General

ISBN10: 0271060670
ISBN13: 9780271060675
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Aug 27 2013
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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