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001 2013012140
003 DLC
005 20140724075826.0
008 130326s2013 txua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013012140
020 $a9780300196467 (paper over board)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aND237.W45$bA4 2013
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245 00 $aAmerican adversaries :$bWest and Copley in a transatlantic world /$cEmily Ballew Neff with Kaylin H. Weber ; with contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, James Clifton, Leo Costello, Christopher Lloyd, Donna Pierce, and Martin Postle.
264 1 $a[Houston] :$bThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,$c[2013]
300 $axii, 258 pages :$billustrations ;$c33 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Illuminating essays and more than two hundred images offer a compelling account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West--America's first global art superstars"--Provided by publisher.
500 $a"This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from October 6, 2013, to January 5, 2014"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLondon: the artists and their arena. Brothers-in-arms? Copley, West, and the Royal Academy / by Martin Postle -- A temple of history painting : West's Newman Street studio and art collection / by Kaylin H. Weber -- Reverberated enjoyment : prints, printmakers, and publishers in late-eighteenth century London / by James Clifton -- North America : West and the middle ground. At the wood's edge : Benjamin West's "The Death of Wolfe" and the middle ground / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Men of the middle ground : the visual culture of native-white diplomacy in eighteenth-century North America / by Janet Catherine Berlo -- Italy : Copley on the grand tour. A remembrance of what we have seen : Copley takes the grand tour / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Benjamin West and Italy / by Christopher Lloyd -- Atlantic and Pacific : Copley and the sea. Like gudgeons to a worm : John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the shark" and the cultures of natural history / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Blacks in the casta paintings of New Spain / by Donna Pierce -- Coda. Laying siege : West, Copley, and the battle of history painting / by Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber -- Turner, West, and the end of contemporary history painting / by Leo Costello.
600 10 $aWest, Benjamin,$d1738-1820$vExhibitions.
600 10 $aCopley, John Singleton,$d1738-1815$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aHistory, Modern, in art$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aArt and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century$vExhibitions.
700 1 $aNeff, Emily Ballew,$d1963-
700 12 $aPostle, Martin.$tBrothers-in-arms.
710 2 $aMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston.