William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War Elder Nika
William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War Elder Nika Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually…
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William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War Elder Nika
Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. Reading his still lifes in relation to wartime visual culture, literary realism, museum display, and industrial design, she shows how Harnett experimented with inanimate objects and pictorial techniques to represent the human condition without depicting the human body. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's career-long effort to position still life as a serious art.Nika Elder elevates the significance of Harnett's academic training and questions his apparent turn away from it.
By engaging such lofty themes, His paintings illustrate late nineteenth-century American material culture, but they also represent Reconstruction, interiority, death and life, and the imagination.
The American Civil War
American Civil War
Flags of the American Civil War
Flags of the American Civil War
American Civil War Commanders
American Civil War Marines
American Civil War Commanders
American Civil War Commanders
American Civil War Armies
American Civil War Armies
American Civil War Armies
American Civil War DK