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- Winslow Homer / by Cikovsky, Nicolai.; Kelly, Franklin.; Homer, Winslow,1836-1910.; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.);
Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-418) and index.
- Subjects: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910; Nationalism in art; Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910; Paintings; United States;
- © c1995., National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press,
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- Photography and the American Civil War / by Rosenheim, Jeff,author.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.); New Orleans Museum of Art.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic history, as the camera recorded the epic, heartbreaking narrative from beginning to end-- providing those on the home front, for the first time, with immediate visual access to the horrors of the battlefield.Shadows of ourselves -- The dead of Antietam -- Photography before the war -- Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election -- Secession and Fort Sumter -- Early war portraits -- Missing the picture, Bull Run, 1861-62 -- Gardner and his photographic sketch book -- Ambrotypes and tintypes -- Cartes de visite and other paper prints -- Collecting the wounded -- Barnard and his views of Sherman's campaign -- War's end and Lincoln's assassination -- The slow recovery.
- Subjects: War photography;
- © [2013], Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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- Thomas Eakins / by Sewell, Darrel,1939-; Eakins, Thomas,1844-1916.; Foster, Kathleen A.; Philadelphia Museum of Art.; MuseÌe d'Orsay.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.Thomas Eakins and American art / Darrel Sewell -- Chronology / Kathleen Brown -- Eakins's early years / Amy B. Werbel -- Studies in Paris and Spain / H. Barbara Weinberg -- The 1870s / Marc Simpson -- Images of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia / Elizabeth Milroy -- Eakins and the academy / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1880s / Marc Simpson -- Eakins's vision of the past and the building of a reputation / Marc Simpson -- Photographs and the making of paintings / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- The camera artist / W. Douglass Paschall -- The 1890s / Marc Simpson -- Portraits of teachers and thinkers / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1900s / Marc Simpson -- The pursuit of "true tones" / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- Eakins in the twentieth century / Carol Troyen -- Eakins as a writer / William Innes Homer.
- Subjects: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916; Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916;
- © c2001., Philadelphia Museum of Art,
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- Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop / by Fineman, Mia.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.;
Includes bibliographical references (P. 268-298, 273) and index.Picture perfect -- Artifice in the name of art -- Politics and persuasion -- Novelties and amusements -- Pictures in print -- Mind's eye -- Protoshop."It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the medium was invented. In "Faking It", Fineman demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that begins with the earliest years of photography, encompassing methods as diverse as overpainting, multiple exposure, negative retouching, combination printing, and photomontage. Among the book's revelations are previously unknown and never before published images that document the acts of manipulation behind two canonical works of modern photography: one blatantly fantastical (Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void" of 1960); the other a purportedly unadulterated record of a real place in time (Paul Strand's "City Hall Park" of 1915). Featuring 160 captivating pictures created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, "Faking It" provides an essential counterhistory of photography as an inspired blend of fabricated truths and artful falsehoods."--Publisher's website.
- Subjects: Trick photography; Photography; Photography, Handworked;
- © c2012., Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
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- El Greco / by Davies, David,1937-; Greco,1541?-1614.; Elliott, John Huxtable.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); National Gallery (Great Britain);
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.Publisher's description: A much anticipated, wide-ranging survey of works by one of the world's greatest artists. El Greco (1541-1614), born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was one of the most fascinating and distinctive artists of the sixteenth century. His works are immediately recognizable for their brilliant colors, elongated figures, and spiritual intensity. Initially trained in Crete, in around 1567 El Greco moved to Italy where he purportedly studied with Titian. A decade later he is documented in Toledo (south of Madrid), and he spent the rest of his long life in Spain. His paintings and writings offer a thoughtful, frequently inspired response to the varied environments in which he worked--and they reveal that he was deeply engaged with the religious and artistic thinking of his times. This lavishly illustrated book--the first comprehensive English-language publication on El Greco in many years--addresses the full range of the artist's work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces. It considers his personality from both a religious and intellectual point of view, and presents the artist's religious, mythological, genre, landscape, and portrait works, providing the historical context in which they were made. El Greco is the catalogue for an exhibition organized jointly by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London. The exhibition opens in New York in October 2003, and moves to London in February 2004.
- Subjects: Greco, 1541?-1614;
- © c2003., National Gallery Company ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
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- The Civil War and American art / by Harvey, Eleanor Jones.; Smithsonian American Art Museum.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.);
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index."The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero on the battlefield. Instead, many artists found ways to weave the war into works of art that considered the human narrative--the daily experiences of soldiers, slaves, and families left behind. Artists and writers wrestled with the ambiguity and anxiety of the Civil War and used landscape imagery to give voice to their misgivings as well as their hopes for themselves and the nation. This important book looks at the range of artwork created before, during, and following the war, in the years between 1859 and 1876. Author Eleanor Jones Harvey examines the implications of the war on landscape and genre painting, history painting, and photography, as represented in some of the greatest masterpieces of 19th-century American art. The book features extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years, alongside text by literary figures including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman, among many others"--Landscapes and the metaphorical war -- The art of wartime photography -- The human face of war -- Abolition and emancipation.
- Subjects: Art, American; Art and society;
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