John Rogers American Stories
by Orcutt, KimberlyFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-12-15
Publisher(s): Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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Summary
John Rogers (1829-1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as 'Rogers Groups' over the course of a career that spanned the late nineteenth century. Rogers himself said, 'I want each group to tell a story,' and these narrative sculptures carried on a deeply rooted popular American genre tradition that was established in the antebellum period by painters such as William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham. The book, generously illustrated and containing eleven essays on different aspects of his work (including its Neoclassical elements influences and the mass market it found), aims to bring Rogers's work to life for a new generation of admirers.
Author Biography
Kimberly Orcutt is associate curator of American Art, New-York Historical Society (N-YHS).
Table of Contents
President's Foreword * Director's Preface * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Sculpture for a Mass Market -- Michael Leja * Looking at Rogers Groups -- Michael Clapper * Themes in Rogers' Work * Neoclassicism and the Artist's Ideal -- Kimberly Orcutt * John Rogers, the Civil War, and "the subtle question of the hour" -- Kirk Savage * John Rogers, Lilly Martin, and the Culture of Sentimentality -- Melissa Dabakis * Read, Look, Listen: Literacy Motives in John Rogers' America -- Leo G. Mazow * Folio of Genre Groups * The Life of a Rogers Group * A Union of Art and Industry: How Rogers Group Were Made -- Thayer Tolles * Selling the John Rogers Brand -- Kimberly Orcutt * John Rogers Takes His Place in the Parlor -- David Jaffee * The Rise and Fall - and Rise - of John Rogers -- Kimberly Orcutt * John Rogers' Monochromes: A Conservation Studio'sPractical Approach -- Erin Toomey, Jessica Fracassini and Leslie Ransick Gat * Chronology * Select Biography * Index
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