In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America’s revolution. Copley’s talent earned him the patronage of Boston’s leaders but he did not share their politics and painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. A British subject who lamented America’s provincialism, Copley looked longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into war, he was in London. A painter of America’s revolution as Britain’s American War, the magisterial canvases he created made him one of the towering figures of the British art scene. Kamensky brings Copley’s world alive and explores the fraught relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and posterity—tensions that characterised the era of the American Revolution and that beset us still.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2016-10-04
Mått170 x 239 x 41 mm
Vikt953 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor544
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393240016
UtmärkelserWinner of New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2017
Jane Kamensky is the author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and professor emerita of history at Harvard University. She is the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has previously served as director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
"Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of The American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists."
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Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Mary Beth Norton, Jane (Harvard University) Kamensky, Carol (College of William and Mary) Sheriff, David W. (Yale University) Blight, Howard (Brown University) Chudacoff, Fredrik (Harvard University) Logevall, Beth (University of Kansas) Bailey, Mary Beth (Cornell University) Norton, David W Blight
Mary Beth Norton, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Mary Beth (Cornell University) Norton, Jane (Harvard University) Kamensky, Carol (College of William and Mary) Sheriff, David W. (Yale University) Blight, Howard (Brown University) Chudacoff, Fredrik (Harvard University) Logevall, Beth (University of Kansas) Bailey
Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Mary Beth Norton, Jane (Harvard University) Kamensky, Carol (College of William and Mary) Sheriff, David W. (Yale University) Blight, Howard (Brown University) Chudacoff, Fredrik (Harvard University) Logevall, Beth (University of Kansas) Bailey, Mary Beth (Cornell University) Norton