Popular taste and popular painting : national identity in the United States during the nineteenth century

Author

Vlach, John Michael

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

World art : themes of unity in diversity

Author (monograph)

Lavin, Irving (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

World art : themes of unity in diversity. 1989, p. 727-730

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Discusses portraits of the first quarter of the 19th c., and asserts that so-called folk painting is, in fact, a middle class art form derived not from the historically sanctioned customs of traditional groups but from the desires of the progressive and upwardly mobile segments of society to imitate the art of the elite.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- United States
• Painting
• United States
• 1800-1900
• Portraits
• Folk art
• Taste (aesthetics)
• Popular culture
• Nationalism
• Middle classes
• Economics

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- États-Unis
• Peinture
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-1900
• Portrait
• Populaire (art)
• Goût (esthétique)
• Culture populaire
• Nationalisme
• Classe moyenne
• Economie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00448654

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