Trouble in Paradise: Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art

By Alan Wallach

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, the historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004711511
• ISBN13: 9789004711518
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"