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Homer, Eakins, & Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age

Homer, Eakins, & Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age

Griffin, Randall C.

Hardcover

Art History19th Century United States HistoryAmerican Art - General

ISBN10: 0271023295
ISBN13: 9780271023298
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Mar 23 2004
Pages: 178
Weight: 1.94
Height: 0.95 Width: 7.22 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Randall Griffin's book examines the ways in which artists and critics sought to construct a new identity for America during the era dubbed the Gilded Age because of its leaders' taste for opulence. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Anshutz explored alternative American themes and styles, but widespread belief in the superiority of European art led them and their audiences to look to the Old World for legitimacy. This rich, never-resolved contradiction between the native and autonomous, on the one hand, and, on the other, the European and borrowed serves as the armature of Griffin's innovative look at how and why the world of art became a key site in the American struggle for identity.

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