American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution

by Kevin M. Murphy

This iteration of the American Encounters series addresses artists' conceptions of political and military authority through portraiture during and after North American and European revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The works discussed demonstrate shifting ideals of leadership through examination of artistic style, from restrained Neoclassicism to dynamic Romanticism, as well as the iconography of martial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615912621
• ISBN13: 9780615912622
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher