| Description |
xxiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Half t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: "[W]hy not act the man[?]" -- 1. Forging: Charles Willson Peale and his father -- 2. "This faint spark of genius": fortune, patronage, and Peale's rise as an artist -- 3. "Application will overcome the greatest difficulties": work, career, and identity in Pearle's art and life -- II: "I scru[t]inize the actions of men" -- 4. A good war and a troubled peace: Charles Willson Peale's search for order, 1776-94 -- 5. "The medicinal office of the mind": the Peale museum's mission of reform, 1793-1810 -- 6. "The hygiene of the self": work, writing, and the enlightened body -- III: "It would seem a second creation" -- 7. The struggle against dispersal: work, family, and order in Peale's family portraits -- 8. "I bring forth into public view": Peale's secular apotheosis in The artist in his museum. |
| Subject |
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827.
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Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827. |
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Painters -- United States -- Biography.
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Painters. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827.
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| ISBN |
0520239601 alkaline paper |
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