Painting US Empire by Maggie M. Cao HARDBACK 9780226832418

Painting US EmpireNineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies\nAuthor(s): Maggie M. Cao\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226832418, 978-0226832418\nSynopsis\nA fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898.\n\nPainting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work,art historian Maggie M. Cao crafts a nuanced portrait of nineteenth-century US painters complicity with and resistance to ascendant US imperialism, offering eye-opening readings of canonical works, landscapes of polar expeditions and tropical tourism, still lifes of imported goods, genre paintings, and ethnographic portraiture. Revealing how the US empire was hidden in plain sight in the art of this period, Cao examines artists including Frederic Edwin Church and Winslow Homer who championed and expressed ambivale.