A seamless web : transatlantic art in the nineteenth century / edited by Cheryll L. May and Marian Wardle.

"In recent years, American art scholars have increasingly focused on the importance of cross-cultural exchanges during nineteenth century. As essayist Francois Brunet puts it, mid-nineteenth century landscapes were transnational ... permeated by complex transactions where 'American' originality produced itself not only in imitation of or reaction against 'European' influences ... but as critical mirroring and incorporating of 'European' images. Articles in this collection make clear that the conversation of cultures went both ways, with American artworks and culture also affecting European artistic and literary practice. Essays explore the transnational origin of many types of American artworks, from stained glass windows, which usually copied their European originals with great exactitude, to paintings and sculptures using distinctly American motifs, such as the Puritan and the cowboy, to distinguish American art students from their Parisian masters. It also examines American cultural icons, particularly the American Indian, appropriated by European writers and artists and philosophers to embody primeval wisdom. A distinguished international group of scholars, including Brunet, Robert Rydell, and Peter Gibian, offer valuable perspectives to the ever-broadening field of transnational cultural studies"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cultural Transactions across the Atlantic -- ch. One Toward a Transcultural History of American Landscape Images in the Nineteenth Century / Francois Brunet -- ch. Two Transnationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Painted Window / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- ch. Three Breton's The Song of the Lark: A Transcultural American Icon / Josephine Landback -- ch. Four I Like America: Imagined German Encounters with the American West from Karl May to Joseph Beuys / Steven Bradley -- ch. Five When the Cosmopolitan Was Not a Drink: World's Fairs, Wild West Shows, and the Weirs / Robert W. Rydell -- pt. II Personal Journeys: For Training, for Insight, Sometimes Forever -- ch. Six Ellen Day Hale's Self Portrait: Negotiating Boston and Paris / Kalisha Roberts Grimsman -- ch. Seven Bringing Home the World: The Cultural, Artistic, and Architectural Patronage of Indiana Fletcher Williams (1828 -- 1900) / H. Christian Carr.

Note continued: ch. Eight Puritan Parisians: American Art Students in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris / Emily Burns -- ch. Nine Utopian Pastiche: The Still Life Paintings of Charles Caryl Coleman / Adrienne Baxter Bell -- ch. Ten Beyond Aesthetic Tourism: Travelers and Locals in Sargent's Self-Reflexive Subject Pictures / Peter Gibian.

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