‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013

‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013

Striving to distinguish their authority as and demonstrate their professionalism, art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William James Stillman wrote exhibition reviews, essays, and increasingly self-conscious histories of American art and artists in the mid-nineteenth century. Wherea...

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Main Author: Emily Gephart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
Subjects:
James Jackson Jarves
Clarence Cook
William James Stillman
American Pre-Raphaelites
John Ruskin
the Crayon
the New Path
Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/gephart-review.pdf
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spelling doaj-3e0f221b3bb74221a15dc2c80af734342020-11-24T23:34:57ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522014-12-011111EG1‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013Emily Gephart0School of the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonStriving to distinguish their authority as and demonstrate their professionalism, art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William James Stillman wrote exhibition reviews, essays, and increasingly self-conscious histories of American art and artists in the mid-nineteenth century. Whereas their writing has often been employed to establish a model of opposed pre- and post-war periodization in American art, Karen Georgi challenges this view, re-evaluating the rhetorical structures through which they set forth their opinions. Despite apparent differences and transformations in their categorical classifications, she finds commonalities in their definitions of art, as well as deeper commitments to the enduring belief in art’s truthfulness, and its moral and didactic purpose.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/gephart-review.pdfJames Jackson JarvesClarence CookWilliam James StillmanAmerican Pre-RaphaelitesJohn Ruskinthe Crayonthe New Path
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Clarence Cook
William James Stillman
American Pre-Raphaelites
John Ruskin
the Crayon
the New Path
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title ‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
title_short ‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
title_full ‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
title_fullStr ‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
title_full_unstemmed ‘Historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating American art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: Karen Georgi, Critical Shift: Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
title_sort ‘historical narratives and historical desires: re-evaluating american art criticism of the mid-nineteenth century’: karen georgi, critical shift: rereading jarves, cook, stillman, and the narratives of nineteenth-century american art, the pennsylvania state university press, 2013
publisher Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
series Journal of Art Historiography
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publishDate 2014-12-01
description Striving to distinguish their authority as and demonstrate their professionalism, art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William James Stillman wrote exhibition reviews, essays, and increasingly self-conscious histories of American art and artists in the mid-nineteenth century. Whereas their writing has often been employed to establish a model of opposed pre- and post-war periodization in American art, Karen Georgi challenges this view, re-evaluating the rhetorical structures through which they set forth their opinions. Despite apparent differences and transformations in their categorical classifications, she finds commonalities in their definitions of art, as well as deeper commitments to the enduring belief in art’s truthfulness, and its moral and didactic purpose.
topic James Jackson Jarves
Clarence Cook
William James Stillman
American Pre-Raphaelites
John Ruskin
the Crayon
the New Path
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