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Young America : childhood in 19th-century art and culture / Claire Perry.

Title
Young America : childhood in 19th-century art and culture / Claire Perry.
Author
Perry, Claire
Publication
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, c2006.

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  • Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
  • Portland Museum of Art
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
Description
x, 236 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
In an era of both optimism and anxiety about the nation's future, Americans in the nineteenth century focused attention on the cultivation and education of children as future citizens. Contemporary portrayals of children - in fine paintings, popular prints, illustrated primers, and advertisements - helped to shape cultural expectations: pictures of hardy country boys, intent schoolchildren, and little girls practicing embroidery were examples of the ways model Americans should look and behave. At the same time, images showing street urchins, young slaves, or children at work in factories reflected troubling conflicts in society. This appealing book explores representations of children in relation to the currents of American culture, including urbanization, immigration, separate spheres of the genders, and the nation's professed devotion to egalitarianism. A generous selection of illustrations includes well-loved works by such artists as Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson, as well as fascinating archival images. With engaging depictions of children from varied economic, racial, and geographic backgrounds, Young America opens a new window on the life and culture of the United States during a century of vast change and growth.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Art, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Children > United States > Social conditions > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Children in art > Exhibitions
  • Children in art > Exhibitions
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "American ABC", held at Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Feb. 1-May 7, 2006; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 4-Sept. 17, 2006; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Nov. 1, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-226) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The country boy -- Daughters of liberty -- Children of bondage -- Ragamuffin -- The papoose -- The new scholar -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Exhibition checklist -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0300106203 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0937031275 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005015119
OCLC
60500386
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library