American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America's first transatlantic art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals, the artists painted contemporary events as they happened, illustrating the transformation of imperial power through diplomacy between British Americans and the Iroquois, and through transatlantic trade, exploration, and the natural history of the West Indies. Focusing ...
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American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America's first transatlantic art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals, the artists painted contemporary events as they happened, illustrating the transformation of imperial power through diplomacy between British Americans and the Iroquois, and through transatlantic trade, exploration, and the natural history of the West Indies. Focusing on two iconic works, West's The Death of General Wolfe (1770) and Copley's Watson and the Shark (1778), American Adversaries charts the rise of contemporary history painting, and offers a compelling examination of American history and New World exploration. Featuring more than two hundred color reproductions of paintings, works on paper, and objects that informed the artists, this handsome volume also includes essays that shed new light on, among other subjects, West and Copley within the context of the Royal Academy and the use of Western and Native American objects in cultural diplomacy. Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (10/06/13-01/05/14)
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As New. White & color illus. boards with translucent titled dust jacket, 258 pp., 228 color illus., 2 fold-outs. "The first to examine two American innovators who changed forever the terms in which history was visualized in the eighteenth century: Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John SIngleton Copley (1738-1815). West and Copley--initially friends and eventually bitter rivals--parleyed their understanding of colonial culture into theatrical paintings that popularized a global world in all of its complexities." (dj) Sumptuously illustrated.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Front cover of jacket and book with a couple of small indents. Book is unmarked and has no other notable flaws. The plastic jacket, with titling and map outline in white, has two short tears at head of spine and a chip at the spine heel. 258 pages.
