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Author : Carrie Rebora Barratt
Release : 1998
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage by : Carrie Rebora Barratt
Download or read book John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage written by Carrie Rebora Barratt. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rininger
Release : 2011
Genre : Portraits, American
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Book Synopsis An American "duchess" in Disguise by : Elizabeth Rininger
Download or read book An American "duchess" in Disguise written by Elizabeth Rininger. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Kamensky
Release : 2016-10-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by : Jane Kamensky
Download or read book A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley written by Jane Kamensky. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies. Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America’s founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley’s refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.
Author : Jennifer Van Horn
Release : 2017-02-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America by : Jennifer Van Horn
Download or read book The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America written by Jennifer Van Horn. This book was released on 2017-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
Release : 2006-05-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Revolutionary Characters by : Gordon S. Wood
Download or read book Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood. This book was released on 2006-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
