Measure and Design in American Painting, 1760-1860 (Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781138366138
$211.48
First published in 1977. The purpose of this study is to locate the sources for the American style of painting characterised by measure and design - the representation of the specific and familiar according to principles of pictorial order. The reader shall see that there were a variety of conventions available to the artist and that his selection of one or another of them depended upon pragmatic, philosophical, and aesthetic considerations.
- | Author: Lisa Fellows Andrus
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 438 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138366137
- | ISBN-13: 9781138366138
- Author:
- Lisa Fellows Andrus
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Nov 28, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 438 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1138366137
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138366138