Moved to tears : rethinking the art of the sentimental in the United States /
In 'Moved to Tears,' Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, Bedell argues that major American artists, from John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale in the eighteenth century and Asher Durand and...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- The revolutionary art and politics of sentiment: Charles Willson Peale and John Trumbull
- Sentiment and social change: slavery, race, and the art of Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Andrew Jackson Downing and the sentimental home
- Sentimental landscapes
- Sentimental Homer
- Strategic sentimentalism: John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt.