Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic
David C. Ward
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Date published: 2004-08-09
- ISBN: 9780520239609
University of California Press, 2004-08-09. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Jacket slightly sunned. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. xxix, 236 p., ill., 23 cm. "At last, Charles Willson Peale is revealed, compleat and complex: as the familiar and essential artist and scientist, to be sure, but also as the patriot, parent, publicist, and more. David Ward's astute examination of this unique polymath introduces unexpected aspects of the man and, in so doing, sheds new light on the genius of the American Enlightenment. A masterly portrait, and an interpretive tour de force." - Charles C. Eldredge, author of Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
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