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Out of Context American Artists Abroad
Laura Felleman Fattal, Carol Salus
Book Code: GM1649
ISBN: 0-313-31649-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31649-4
216 pages, photos
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2004
List Price: $71.95 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
  • Endorsement From Anthony W. Lee
    Associate Professor of Art History
    Mount Holyoke College:     These essays should help us begin to rethink how we interpret the American in American art.
Description: Regardless of their expatriate residence, 19th- and 20th-century American artists have viewed their destinies as linked inextricably to that of the United States. Antithetical to progressive democratic ideals has been the embedded class structure found by expatriate artists in European and Latin American communities, and as such, new interpretive approaches to public and private issues such as society reform and racial and ethnic equality provided the crucible for many American artists. In this way, American expatriate artists have been cultural arbiters between various histories and legacies within and outside the United States. This collection of essays by noted art history scholars explores the experiences and legacies of these artists, offering a depiction of their art as being informed both by native traditions and American individualism. We see these combinations, these paradoxes, in Mary Cassatt's Spanish figures; in the Impressionist ties of the American colonies at Grez near the Barbizon forest; in Savage's allegorical subjects; in Francis's painterly allusions; in Sargent's guarded approaches to his foreign subjects; in Klumpke's feminism; in Whistler's innovations. Arguably, expatriate artists have delighted in an explicit marginality-one that, in turn, creates an inchoate definition of American art. Though often a subject of literary studies, expatriatism has too long been overlooked in the visual arts; this excellent volume serves both as a corrective and as a much-needed addition to current scholarship.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Whistler's Paintings in Valparaiso: Carpe Diem by Robert H. Getscher
  • Bullfights and Balconies: Flirtation and Majismo in Mary Cassatt's Spanish Paintings of 1872-73 by M. Elizabeth Boone
  • The American Artists in Grez by William H. Gerdts
  • Bridging the Gap of Difference: Anne Klumpke's "union" with Rosa Bonheur by Britta C. Dwyer
  • John Singer Sargent: Accidental Heir to the American Expatriate Tradition by Kathleen L. Butler
  • "'Heads of Thought and Reflection': Busts of Busts of African Warriors by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage, African American Sculptors in Paris, 1922-1934" by Theresa Leininger-Miller
  • The Mexican Murals of Marion and Grace Greenwod by James Oles
  • Fashioning Nationality: Sam Fracis, Joan Mitchell, and American Expatriate Artists in Paris in the 1950s by Michael Plante
  • R.B. Kitaj: Painting as Personal Voyage by Carol Salus
  • Global Citizen: Beverly Pepper by Laura Felleman Fattal
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002024478
LCC Class: N6757
Dewey Class: 704
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