Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, Circa 1800-1950

by Charles C. Eldredge

Book Overview

Tales from the Easel features seventy full-color reproductions that convey the expressive, allusive powers of narrative painting. Though they range widely in subject and setting, all of the paintings gathered here are rendered in a representational, or realistic, style. Carrying moral, social, or patriotic messages, the paintings are meant to teach, enlighten, or inspire. Then again, the paintings can also tweak the very conventions that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820325694
• ISBN13: 9780820325699
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.2"