A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley

Kamensky, Jane

ISBN 10: 0393240010 / ISBN 13: 9780393240016

Published by W. W. Norton, New York, 2016

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First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a "Literary Lights 2017" bookplate pasted to the front endpaper. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $35.00); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 011132

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Title: A Revolution in Color: The World of John ...

Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's prodigious talent earned him the patronage of Boston's patriot leaders, including Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. But the artist did not share their politics, and painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. An ambitious British subject who lamented America's provincialism, Copley looked longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into all-out war, Copley was in London. The magisterial canvases he created there made him one of the towering figures of the British art scene: a painter of America's revolution as Britain's American War. Kamensky's gripping history brings Copley's world alive and explores the fraught relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and posterity-tensions that characterized the era of the American Revolution and that beset us still.

About the Author:

Jane Kamensky is a professor of history at Harvard University and faculty director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute. Her many books include The Exchange Artist, a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.