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010 $a 2003022858
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050 00 $aND237.P27$bW295 2004
082 00 $a759.13$aB$222
100 1 $aWard, David C.,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003017353
245 10 $aCharles Willson Peale :$bart and selfhood in the early republic /$cDavid C. Ward.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axxiv, 236 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a staggeringly full and successful life. A portrait painter who produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic The Artist in His Museum, Peale was also a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. His many other interests included a lifelong preoccupation with writing; in fact, his autobiography is one of the first examples of the genre in the United States. David C. Ward's book, with references to the history and culture of the time, is the first full critical biography of Peale. It links the artist's autobiography to his painting, illuminating the man, his art, and his times. Peale emerges for the first time as that particularly American phenomenon: the self-made man." "Recounting many stories and incidents, Ward takes a new look at Peale's complex family life, his artistic career, and his multifaceted cultural ambitions. Before Peale, life histories had been written mainly as religious and confessional documents. Peale, however, produced his secular work to describe not how God made him, but how he worked to make himself. This study, drawing extensively from Peale's life itself documents the development of American independence and individualism. Ultimately Ward addresses Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's great question, "What then is the American, this new man?" as he sheds light on one of these new men and on the formative years in which he lived."--BOOK JACKET.
500 $6 0$aAhmanson Murphy fine arts imprint.$a"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99002989
600 10 $aPeale, Charles Willson,$d1741-1827.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80025860
650 0 $aPainters$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108757
700 1 $aPeale, Charles Willson,$d1741-1827.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80025860
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022858.html
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