American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world / Emily Ballew Neff with Kaylin H. Weber ; with contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, James Clifton, Leo Costello, Christopher Lloyd, Donna Pierce, and Martin Postle
"This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from October 6, 2013, to January 5, 2014"--Title page verso.
Contents:
London: the artists and their arena. Brothers-in-arms? Copley, West, and the Royal Academy / by Martin Postle -- A temple of history painting : West's Newman Street studio and art collection / by Kaylin H. Weber -- Reverberated enjoyment : prints, printmakers, and publishers in late-eighteenth century London / by James Clifton -- North America : West and the middle ground. At the wood's edge : Benjamin West's "The Death of Wolfe" and the middle ground / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Men of the middle ground : the visual culture of native-white diplomacy in eighteenth-century North America / by Janet Catherine Berlo -- Italy : Copley on the grand tour. A remembrance of what we have seen : Copley takes the grand tour / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Benjamin West and Italy / by Christopher Lloyd -- Atlantic and Pacific : Copley and the sea. Like gudgeons to a worm : John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the shark" and the cultures of natural history / by Emily Ballew Neff -- Blacks in the casta paintings of New Spain / by Donna Pierce -- Coda. Laying siege : West, Copley, and the battle of history painting / by Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber -- Turner, West, and the end of contemporary history painting / by Leo Costello
Summary:
"Illuminating essays and more than two hundred images offer a compelling account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West--America's first global art superstars"--Provided by publisher.
