Visions of Belonging

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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, Julian Weir, and other well-known artists produced images of quaint villages, agricultural labor, scenic rural churches, and the distinctive New England landscape. Julia B. Rosenbaum asks why and how a range of artists - including Impressionist and Modernist painters and sculptors - and exhibitors fashioned this particular vision of New England in their work." "Illustrated with color plates and almost sixty halftones, Visions of Belonging explores the interplay between art objects and the shaping of loyalties and identities in a formative phase of American culture. It will appeal not only to art historians but also to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century studies, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American studies, New England history and culture, and American cultural and intellectual history."--Jacket.

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