Samuel F. B. Morse (Cambridge Monographs on American Artists) - Softcover

Staiti, Paul J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107403367 ISBN 13: 9781107403369

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This is the definitive study of one of America's major artists and inventors, Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). It covers his prodigious achievements in painting and technology, his passionate cultural ambitions, and his key role in the historic development of American art. The book imaginatively combines intellectual biography with interpretation of more than one hundred pictures. Three chapters consider Morse's most extraordinary artistic achievements: The House of Representatives, The Gallery of the Louvre, and The National Academy of Design. In a final chapter on the electromagnetic telegraph, an invention that imprinted his name on our language, there is a special discussion of the conceptual relationship between artistic and mechanical inventions.

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Review:

"...a well-studied and successful book on Samuel F.B. Morse's important paintings, with careful writing on his relationships and activities...The book should be much used and influential." ISIS

"By far the best single book on Morse as an artist and 19th-century figure." T.J. McCormick, Wheaton College (MA), in Choice

"By placing Morse in an artistic, social, and political context, Staiti has given us a clearer picture of the man than we have heretofore had...Staiti's book is an important addition to American art scholarship." David Meschutt, Winterthur Portfolio

Book Description:

This 1990 volume represented the first fully developed study of the eminent American artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872). It reveals his prodigious achievements in painting and technology, his passionate ambitions, and his key role in the development of American art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107403367
• ISBN 13: 9781107403369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338