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	1 Davidson, Gail G., and McCarron-Cate, Floramae, and Burns, Sarah, and Marling, Karal Ann (Essays by); Bloemink, Barbara J. (Introduction by) Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape Washington D.C. and New York Smithsonian Insitution Press; Bullfinch 2006 0821257862 / 9780821257869 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Exhibition Catalogue  xii, 180 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 29 cm. Published for the exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, May 19-October 29, 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Paul Warwick Thompson; Introduction, by Barbara Bloemink; Landscape icons, tourism, and land development in the Northeast, by Gail G. Davidson; The best possible view, by Floramae McCarron-Cates; The pastoral ideal: Winslow Homer's bucolic America, by Sarah Burns; America inside out: the view from the parlor, by Karal Ann Marling; Historical and cultural timeline; Sources.  Price: 59.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Burns, Sarah Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America Berkeley, CA University of California Press 2006 0520249879 / 9780520249875 First paperback edition Soft Cover Fine  xxiii, 303 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Voices from the dark, or 'gothic,' side of American life are well known through the work of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But who were the Poes of American art? Until now, art historians have for the most part seen the gothic as the province of misfits and oddballs who rejected the bright landscapes and cheerful scenes of everyday life depicted by Hudson River School and other mainstream painters. In Painting the Dark Side, Sarah Burns counters this view, arguing that far from being marginal, the gothic was a pervasive and potent visual language used by recognized masters and eccentric outsiders alike to express the darker facets of history and the psyche. A deep gothic strain in the visual arts becomes evident in these beautifully written, richly illustrated pages, illuminating the entire spectrum of American art. Weaving a complex tapestry of biography, psychology, and history, Sarah Burns exposes dark dimensions in the work of both romantic artists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder and Thomas Cole and realists like Thomas Eakins. She argues persuasively that works by artists who were generally considered outsiders, such as John Quidor, David Gilmour Blythe, and William Rimmer, belong to the mainstream of American art. She explores the borderlands where popular visual culture mingled with the elite medium of oil and delves into such topics as slave revolt, drugs, grave-robbing, vivisection, drunkenness, female monstrosity, and family secrets. Cutting deep across the grain of standard nationalistic accounts of nineteenth-century art, Painting the Dark Side provides a thrilling, radically alternative vision of American art and visual culture. / Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. She is the author of Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (1996) and Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (1989)." - Publisher.  Price: 44.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart