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Charles Willson Peale
David C. Ward
其他書名
Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic
出版DIANE Publishing Company, 2007-08
主題Art / American / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
ISBN14223662949781422366295
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eANPPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a full & successful life. A portrait painter who produced an unparalleled body of work, incl. the iconic ¿Artist in His Museum,¿ Peale was also a revolutionary soldier, radical activist, impresario of moving pictures, natural historian, inventor, & proprietor of one of the first modern museums. In addition, his autobiography is one of the first examples of the genre in the U.S. This volume is the first critical biography of Peale. It links the artist¿s autobiography to his painting, illuminating the man, his art, & his times. Peale emerges for the first time as a figure who embodied that particularly American phenomenon: the self-made man. Illus.