Trouble in paradise : twenty-four essays on the social history of American art /

"A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called "Luminism," the rise of the American art museum, t...

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Main Author: Wallach, Alan, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 331.
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Table of Contents:
  • The unethical art museum (2006)
  • Accounting for the panoramic in Hudson River School landscape painting (2007)
  • 'A distasteful, indelicate subject' (2019).