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Description: Untitled (Nocturnal Landscape with Adobe Building)

TitleUntitled (Nocturnal Landscape with Adobe Building)

Creator namePeters, Charles Rollo

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation dateUnknown

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm)

LocationOakland Museum of California

Accession numberA65.13.363

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6. Vanishing Indians: Nostalgic Reminiscence and Haunting Presence

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917

The anticipatory nostalgia of Searchlight mirrors the elegiac meditation conveyed by the nocturnal imagery of the West ...

Author

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

PublisherYale University Press

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.133-145

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00087.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16991&redirecttoanchor=27571

Chapter subject tags:Indians of North America--HistorySpanish-American War, 1898Nocturne painting, American--19th centuryImperialism in art--United StatesRace in art--United States--19th centuryCurtis, Edward S., 1868-1952Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890

4. Painting as Rest Cure

Sarah Burns

Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America

The campaign to neutralize and Americanize aestheticism extended beyond prescriptions for wholesomeness and manly discipline in art. Those seeking normalization also undertook to restructure the very concept of artistic vision. At the core of this enterprise was the remodeling of “morbid” egotism into healthy and specialized subjectivity. This newly legitimized subjectivity in turn helped create a dynamic role for art as a form of therapy couched in a purely visual language, acting directly on …

Author

Sarah Burns

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.120-156

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00068.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14781&redirecttoanchor=27571

Chapter subject tags:Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903Art and society--United States--History--19th centuryPainting, American--19th centuryPainting, American--20th centuryNocturne painting, American--19th centuryChase, William Merritt, 1849-1916Visual perceptionArt therapy

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