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Religious Liberty (1876) and the Nineteenth‐Century Jewish American Experience 1 Samantha Baskind A Companion to Nineteenth‐Century Art WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY These invigorating reference volumes chart the influence of key ideas, discourses, and theories on art, and the way that it is taught, thought of, and talked about throughout the English‐speaking world. Each volume brings together a team of respected international scholars to debate the state of research within traditional subfields of art history as well as in more innovative, thematic configurations. Representing the best of the scholarship governing the field and pointing toward future trends and across disciplines, the Blackwell Companions to Art History series provides a magisterial, state‐of‐the‐art synthesis of art history. 1 A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, edited by Amelia Jones 2 A Companion to Medieval Art, edited by Conrad Rudolph 3 A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture, edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton 4 A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, edited by Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow 5 A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present, edited by Dana Arnold and David Peters Corbett 6 A Companion to Modern African Art, edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà 7 A Companion to Chinese Art, edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang 8 A Companion to American Art, edited by John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. 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Description: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. | Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to art history | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018023702 (print) | LCCN 2018026685 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118856338 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781118856352 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118856369 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Art, Modern–19th century. | Art and society–History–19th century. Classification: LCC N6450 (ebook) | LCC N6450 .C64 2018 (print) | DDC 709.03/4–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023702 Cover image: © Wikimedia Commons Cover design: Wiley Set in 10/12pt Galliard by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Figures ix About the Editor xiii Notes on Contributors xv Series Editor’s Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction xxv Michelle Facos 1 Moses Jacob Ezekiel’s Religious Liberty (1876) and the Nineteenth‐Century Jewish American Experience 1 Samantha Baskind 2 The Lure of “Magick Land”: British Artists and Italy in the Eighteenth Century 17 Brendan Cassidy 3 Mining the Dutch Golden Age: The Avant‐Garde Enterprise 35 Johanna Ruth Epstein 4 “The Revenge of Art on Life”: Beauty, Modernity, and Edward Burne‐Jones’s King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 51 Andrea Wolk Rager 5 Show and Tell: Exhibition Practice in the Nineteenth Century 69 Patricia Mainardi 6 Networked: The Art Market in the Nineteenth Century 83 Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich vi CONTENTS 7 German Art Academies and their Impact on Artistic Style 103 Sabine Wieber 8 “Orientalism” in Art: The Case of John Frederick Lewis 121 Julie Codell 9 Wall to Wall: Zones of Artistic Engagement in Late Nineteenth‐Century America 139 Melody Barnett Deusner 10 “Like a Dog, Just Looking”: Cézanne, Innocence, and Early Phenomenological Thought in Nineteenth‐Century France 159 Nina Athanassoglou‐Kallmyer 11 Aesthetic Religion, Religious Aesthetics, and the Romantic Quest for Epiphany 175 Cordula Grewe 12 The Wanderers and Realism in Tsarist Russia 193 Josephine Karg 13 Thomas Cole and the Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School 209 William L. Coleman 14 Sculpture and the Public Imagination: Nineteenth‐Century Site‐Specific Art of the Cemetery, the Garden, and the Street 225 Caterina Y. Pierre 15 Capturing Unconsciousness: The New Psychology, Hypnosis, and the Culture of Hysteria 243 Fae Brauer 16 Impressionism and the Mirror Image 263 Martha Lucy 17 Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century 281 Neil McWilliam 18 Australian Art in the Nineteenth‐Century: Forging a National Style 299 Catherine Speck 19 Tradition and Modernity in Nineteenth‐Century Catalan Art: From Romanticism to Picasso 315 M. Lluïsa Faxedas Brujats 20 Principle and Practice in Nineteenth‐Century Danish Landscape Painting 335 Thor J. Mednick CONTENTS vii 21 Art and Multiculturalism in Estonia and Latvia, circa 1900 353 Bart Pushaw 22 Nationalism and the Myth of Hungarian Origin: Attila and Árpád 371 Terri Switzer 23 In the Service of the Nation: Forging the Identity of Polish Art in the Nineteenth Century 391 Agnieszka Rosales Rodriguez 24 Facing Modernism: Jean‐Antoine Houdon and the Politics of the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth‐Century France 413 Ronit Milano 25 Identity Tourism: Studio Stagings in Nineteenth‐Century Photography 431 Patricia G. Berman 26 The Meaning of the Verb “To Be” in Painting: Manet’s Olympia 451 Andrei Molotiu 27 Cassatt’s Singular Women: Reading Le Figaro and the Older New Woman 467 Ruth E. Iskin 28 Fashion, Lithography, and Gender Instability in Romantic‐Era Paris: A Case Study 485 Andrew Carrington Shelton 29 Racist or Hero of Social Art?: Degas, the Birth of Sociology, and the Biopolitical Gaze 499 Michael F. Zimmermann Index 519 List of Figures 1.1 Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Religious Liberty, 1876. 2 1.2 Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Religious Liberty, 1876. 5 1.3 Moses J. Ezekiel, Eve Hearing the Voice, 1876. 8 1.4 Priestly blessing gesture depicted on the gravestone of Rabbi Meschullam Kohn (1739–1819). 11 2.1 Domenico Cunego, engraving after Gavin Hamilton, Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy, 1766. 30 2.2 Pietro Testa, Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy, c.1648. 31 2.3 Domenico Cunego (engraving after Gavin Hamilton), Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus, 1767. 31 2.4 Sandro Botticelli, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1490–92. 32 3.1 Jan Luyken, Kuiper (Cooper), 1694. 41 3.2 Jean‐François Millet, Cooper Tightening Staves on a Barrel, c.1848–1850. 42 4.1 Sir Edward Coley Burne‐Jones, King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1884. 52 4.2 Emery Walker, Photograph of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid by Edward Burne‐Jones. 53 4.3 Giovanni Bellini, Frari Altarpiece (Madonna between Saints Mark, Benedict, Nicholas and Peter). 60 4.4 Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c.1485. 62 6.1 “Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, Limited, 160, New Bond Street.” 87 6.2 “Intended Façade of the Grosvenor Gallery, New Bond Street—Mr. William Thomas Sams, Architect, Doorway by Palladio.” 88 6.3 “The Grosvenor Gallery New Bond Street, London, Built for Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart.—Mr.
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