John Rogers: American Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0856676896
- ISBN-13
- 9780856676895
- Series
- John Rogers
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-15
- Publisher
- Philip Wilson Publishers
- Author
- Kimberly Orcutt
Description
John Rogers (1829-1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as "Rogers Groups" over the course of a career that spanned the late nineteenth century. Rogers himself said, "I want each group to tell a story," and these narrative sculptures carried on a deeply rooted popular American genre tradition that was established in the antebellum period by painters such as William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham. The book, generously illustrated and containing eleven essays on different aspects of his work (including its Neoclassical elements influences and the mass market it found), aims to bring Rogers's work to life for a new generation of admirers. Other contributors include Linda S. Ferber, senior art historian and director emerita, N-YHS; Erin Toomey, Jessica Fracassini and Leslie Ransick Gat, Art Conservation Group; Michael Clapper, associate professor, Franklin and Marshall College; Melissa Dabakis, professor, Kenyon College; David Jaffee, professor, Bard Graduate Center; Michael Leja, professor, University of Pennsylvania; Leo Mazow, curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art; Kirk Savage, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh; and Thayer Tolles, associate curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City
By John RogersJoin John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence.
-
John Rogers: The Compiler of the First Authorised English Bible : the Pioneer of the English Reformation, and Its First...
By Joseph Lemuel ChesterJohn Rogers: The Compiler of the First Authorised English Bible : the Pioneer of the English Reformation, and Its First...
-
Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand“Mr. Lawson,” she said with effort, “do you perhaps recall the name of the man who headed the corporation that owned the factory? The corporation to which you lent the money. It was called Amalgamated Service, wasn't it?
-
Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
By Paul N. SpellmanHowever, the high bluffs on the Texas side of the river afforded a spectacular view of the ring far above the ... 25 For his part Mabry wrote glowingly of the Rangers' contribution to the entire escapade in his bi-annual report to the ...
-
The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
By John RogersJohn Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England.
-
John Rogers: American Stories
By Kimberly OrcuttThe book, illustrated and containing eleven essays on different aspects of his work (including its Neoclassical elements influences and the mass market it found), aims to bring Rogers' work to life for a new generation of admirers.
-
Faith and Fortitude: Life and Times of John Rogers, Martyr
By Crispin RogersThe life story of John Rogers, first of the Protestant Martyrs under Queen Mary and editor of the first authorised English Bible; told as if in his own words, from a newly 'discovered' secret manuscript hidden in the walls of Newgate Prison ...
-
The Cutting Edge: The Life of John Rogers
By Cheryl Haun MorrisBiography of the life of John Rogers, Oklahoma businessman and Dean of the School of Law at the University of Tulsa.