{"product_id":"anglo-american-isbn-9781444351439","title":"Anglo-American","description":"For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colonial period through to the 1960s  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eFeatures a transatlantic group of scholars considering the impact of this relationship on the history of art in both nations\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eOffers a set of new approaches, and much new material relating to the history of British and American art\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eSituates the history of British and American art in the context of recent scholarship, offering a new reading of this key artistic interaction\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Notes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Chapter 1 Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Chapter 2 The Wolfe Man: Benjamin West’s Anglo-American Accent\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Monks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Chapter 3 Failure to Deliver: Watson and the Shark and the Boston Tea Party\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer L. Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e74 Chapter 4 Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw’s Disruptive Visions of the Old New World\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKenneth Haltman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e92 Chapter 5 Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Post-Emancipation Jamaica\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Raab\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e110 Chapter 6 Troubled Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du Maurier\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer A. Greenhill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e132 Chapter 7 ‘In seen and unseen places’: The Henry G. Marquand House and Collections in England and America\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelody Barnett Deusner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e152 Chapter 8 Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the ‘Anglo-American’ in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Peters Corbett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e174 Chapter 9 Losing Sight: War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid M. Lubin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e196 Chapter 10 The Madness of Art: Georgia O’Keeffe and Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Nemerov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e216 Chapter 11 ‘Strange Encounters’: Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Proposed Colossal Monuments’ for New York and London\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJo Applin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e236 Chapter 12 David Hockney: A Taste for Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCécile Whiting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e253 Index\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower-division undergraduates through researchers\/faculty.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Peters Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and Editor of \u003ci\u003eArt History\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written widely on English and American art between 1850 and 1950, and has published most recently on the Ashcan School and on the problem of the past in the work of Charles Sheeler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Monks\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Art History in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia. The author of \u003ci\u003eMarine Painting in Britain,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1650-1850\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLiving with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848\u003c\/i\u003e, both forthcoming, she is currently working on a new book project concerning the relationship between British art and global commerce, experience and imperial ideology during the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA distinguished line-up of scholars from America and the UK consider the complex history of artistic relations between Britain and the USA, covering the years from the colonial period to the 1960s. The book presents a series of significant essays on artists including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Frederic Church, Georgia O’Keeffe and David Hockney, and addresses subjects such as the First World War, Pop Art, the Camden Town Group and Ashcan School, the legacies of slavery, and transatlantic travel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the introduction, the editors analyse the nature and transformation of Anglo-American artistic interactions, and situate the relationship in the context of recent scholarship on comparative global art histories. Taking a comparative view of the shifting Anglo-American artistic relationship, this book opens new avenues of research in the art history of both Britain and America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988740227301,"sku":"NP9781444351439","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444351439.jpg?v=1761781402","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/anglo-american-isbn-9781444351439","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}