{"product_id":"painting-us-empire-nineteenth-century-art-and-its-legacies-9780226832418","title":"Painting Us Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePainting US Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian Maggie M. Cao crafts a nuanced portrait of nineteenth-century US painters' complicity with and resistance to ascendant US imperialism, offering eye-opening readings of canonical works, landscapes of polar expeditions and tropical tourism, still lifes of imported goods, genre paintings, and ethnographic portraiture. Revealing how the US empire was \"hidden in plain sight\" in the art of this period, Cao examines artists including Frederic Edwin Church and Winslow Homer who championed and expressed ambivalence toward the colonial project. She also tackles the legacy of US imperialism, examining Euro-American painters of the past alongside global artists of the present. Pairing each chapter with reflections on works by contemporary anticolonial artists including Tavares Strachan, Nicholas Galanin, and Yuki Kihara, Cao addresses important contemporary questions around representation, colonialism, and indigeneity. This book foregrounds an underacknowledged topic in the study of nineteenth-century US art and illuminates the ongoing ecological and economic effects of the US empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie M. Cao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226832418","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273881190537,"sku":"9780226832418","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7d331c69-6b7a-40d6-8595-ebf2354d5dab.jpg?v=1736840441","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/painting-us-empire-nineteenth-century-art-and-its-legacies-9780226832418","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}