Vistas de España : American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860-1914

by M. Elizabeth Boone

• ISBN13: 9780300116533
• ISBN10: 0300116535
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2007-03-14
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In the decades following the American Civil War and leading up to the First World War, a definitive shift in power took place between Spain and the United States. This original book explores American artists' perceptions of Spain during this period of turmoil and demonstrates how their responses to Spanish art helped to answer emerging, complex questions about American national identity. M. Elizabeth Boone focuses on works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, and other American artists who traveled to Spain to study the achievements of such great masters as Murillo, Velazquez, and Goya. The resulting American paintings, some well known and others now largely forgotten, provide intriguing insights not only into the 19th-century American struggle to define itself as an imperial power but also into the relations between the United States and the Spanish-speaking world today.

Author Biography

M. Elizabeth Boone is professor of art history and chair, Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Samuel Colman, Washington Irving, and the landscapes of Southern Spain	p. 13
George Henry Hall, Costumbrismo, and the vogue for Murillo	p. 37
Thomas Eakins, Harry Humphrey Moore, and the politics of painting in Spain	p. 61
Mary Cassatt, modern woman, and the ritual of Spanish travel	p. 89
Performing Bizet's Carmen : John Singer Sargent, El jaleo, and the Cigarreras of Seville	p. 115
Sunny Spain : the Castilian paintings of William Merritt Chase and Robert Frederick Blum	p. 147
Espana negra : painting in Spain with the generation of '98	p. 175
Chronological list of American artists in Spain
Visitor and copyist registers at the Prado
Visitor registers at the Albambra
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