Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art: Essays in Honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg

by Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate; Dixon, Laurinda S.

• ISBN13: 9780874130119
• ISBN10: 0874130115
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art: Views from Across a Century	p. 15
Exhibitions
"Beware Possible Intrigues Against Gold Award": Rookwood Pottery at the 1889 Exposition Universelle	p. 23
Declaration of Empire: The United States National Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900	p. 29
Reframing the Modern: National Image and Joseph Maria Olbrich's Design for the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904	p. 39
Museums and Other Art Spaces
On the Frontier: The Origins of the Minnesota Museum of American Art	p. 49
Transatlantic Collecting: Paris to Minneapolis	p. 56
Telfair's Artist Statues: From Vienna to Savannah	p. 64
Marketing and Collecting Art
Goupil's Album: Marketing Salon Painting in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 77
A Forgotten Collector Makes His Mark: William Mead Ladd and Print Collecting at the Turn of the Century	p. 85
Julien Dupre: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of an Academic Reputation	p. 93
Artistic Practice and Collaboration
John Ruskin and the Ethics of the Picturesque	p. 103
Daubigny, Courbet, and the Sluice Gate at Optevoz	p. 110
Max Ernst and J. J. Grandville	p. 116
The Decorated Environment
Goya's Ambiguous Saturn	p. 127
Siegfried Bing and Charles Conder: The Many Faces of "New Art"	p. 133
Whistler's 1881 Venice Pastels Exhibition: An "Arrangement in Olive Green and Venetian Red"	p. 141
Chinoiserie and Japonism
Power and Patronage: Empress Eugenie and the Musee chinois	p. 153
Hugues Krafft's Midori-no-sato: The Art of Bringing Zen to the West	p. 162
Art or Ethnography: The Histories of Some Far-Eastern Objects from the Louvre, Now in the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Brest	p. 171
The Response to Feminism
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Negotiating the Business of Victorian Respectability	p. 183
Paper Ladies: Locating the Nineteenth-Century Cocotte in Popular Literature and Journal Illustrations	p. 193
Emmanuel Fremiet's Gorilla Carrying Off a Woman: Beauty, the Beast, and Their Contexts	p. 204
Art and Nationalism
Modernism and Nationalist Architecture in Estonia	p. 215
The Origins of the American Memorial Tradition: The Monument to General Richard Montgomery	p. 222
Revisions
Jean-Frangois Raffaelli: A Unique Voice in the Crowd	p. 231
Fernand Cormon's Cain: Epic Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century History Painting	p. 238
Modernism and Modernity
The Pre-Raphaelites, Modernism, and Fin-de-Siecle France	p. 249
Maximilien Luce and the Specter of Neo-Impressionism	p. 254
"As ugly a monster as has been yet produced: Buffalo's Nineteenth-Century Grain Elevators	p. 263
Dawn Patrol over No Man's Land: A Note on Aviation Architecture and Design of the Great War	p. 270
Notes on Contributors	p. 277
Index	p. 281
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