Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the art of invention, edited by Peter John Brownlee ; with essays by Jean-Philippe Antoine, [and twelve others]

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Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the art of invention, edited by Peter John Brownlee ; with essays by Jean-Philippe Antoine, [and twelve others]

Statement of responsibility

edited by Peter John Brownlee ; with essays by Jean-Philippe Antoine, [and twelve others]

Instantiates

• Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the art of invention

Publication

• Chicago, IL, Terra Foundation for American Art, 2014

Note

"This book accompanies the exhibition Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the art of invention, presented at: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, CA) January 24, 2015-Monday, May 4, 2015, [and eight others]"--Colophon

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Director's Foreword (starting p. 6) / Elizabeth Glassman -- Acknowledgments (starting p. 8) -- Plate 1 Gallery of the Louvre (starting p. 11) -- Plate 2 Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre (starting p. 12) -- Introduction: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention (starting p. 14) / Peter John Brownlee -- CONTEXTS -- "The most splendid ... collection of works of art in the world": Morse and the Louvre (starting p. 34) / Andrew Mcclellan -- Images as Evidence? Morse and the Genre of Gallery Painting (starting p. 46) / Catherine Roach -- Morse's Models (starting p. 60) / Z. Rachael Delue -- Gallery of the Louvre as a Single-Painting Exhibition (starting p. 76) / Tanya Pohrt -- CONTENTS -- The Sculpture Club (starting p. 88) / Wendy Bellion -- Morse and "Mechanical Imitation" (starting p. 100) / Sarah Kate Gillespie -- Inscribing Information, Inscribing Memories: Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, and the Electromagnetic Telegraph (starting p. 110) / Jean-Philippe Antoine -- Painting and Technology: Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence (starting p. 130) / Richard Read -- Honey from the Louvre: Gleaning God's Word from the Old Masters (starting p. 148) / David Bjelajac -- The Forest of the Old Masters: The Chiaroscuro of American Places (starting p. 168) / Alexander Nemerov -- Gallery of the Louvre: Glazing and Problems of Preservation (starting p. 184) / Gay Myers -- Appendix Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, 1833 (starting p. 192) -- Timeline (starting p. 202) / Alissa Schapiro -- Selected Bibliography (starting p. 210) -- Index (starting p. 212) -- Contributors (starting p. 220) -- Photography Credits (starting p. 223)

Control code

876003163

Dimensions

26 cm

Extent

223 pages

Isbn

9780300207613

Lccn

2014017634

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unmediated

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rdamedia

Note

Colby: Gift of Peter and Paula Lunder (Annex copy)

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.b42286219

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(OCoLC)876003163