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List of illustrations

  • Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
  • Festival of Santa Lucia in Naples
  • Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach
  • River View by Moonlight
  • Night, a Port in Moonlight
  • Shipping on the Clyde
  • Moonlight Sonata
  • San Fernando Mission
  • Summer Night
  • Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket
  • Temple of Music at Night, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York
  • Bamboo yards, Kyōbashi Bridge, No. 76
  • Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge
  • Before Tarō Inari Shrine at Asakusa Ricefields
  • Nocturne in the Park Royal, Brussels
  • Night
  • Murano
  • Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso
  • Knock-Turn, Paralyzo
  • Roundout, New York
  • Night: A Harbor
  • The Disciples see Christ Walking on Water
  • Home at Montclair
  • A Wintry Walk
  • Moonrise
  • The Recitation
  • In the Garden
  • The Hermit Thrush
  • Looking into the Unseen
  • Diatoms
  • The Horse in Motion
  • The Annunciation
  • The Annunciation
  • Ideal Way of Lighting a Room
  • Ghost Photographs Excite Interest of Psychists
  • Two Disciples at the Tomb
  • Photography of the Interior of the Eye
  • Moonlight, Wood Island Light
  • Frances Benjamin Johnston, with Maddie (her mother), 1903, with a painted backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California
  • Woman Dancing
  • You Press the Button, We Do the Rest
  • Harper's New Monthly Magazine cover
  • The Peeping Toms of the Camera
  • Quantity not Quality
  • Self-Portrait
  • Icy Night, New York
  • The Hand of Man
  • The Glow of Night—New York
  • Reflections: Night—New York
  • The Cowboy, as Created in Brooklyn
  • Frederic Remington and his wife
  • Dismounted: The Fourth Troopers Moving the Led Horses
  • A Pack Train
  • Steps That Lead to Nowhere (After the Fire)
  • May Night
  • Lady in the Doorway
  • Eve
  • Nocturne
  • The Yellow Moon
  • The Pond—Moonrise
  • Little Nemo in Slumberland
  • Salomé
  • Under a Cloud
  • Kissing the Moon
  • Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
  • The Best Things that Float: Fairbank's Fairy Soap (front of advertising card)
  • The Best Things that Float: Fairbank's Fairy Soap (back of advertising card)
  • A Clean Nation Has Ever Been a Strong Nation
  • Pears Soap, "The White Man's Burden
  • Imperial Whitener
  • The Message from Mars Received by Nikola Tesla
  • The Gulf Stream
  • I Protest/Putnam House/The Portland papers say that there will be a battery put on Prout's Neck Maine
  • The Vanishing Race
  • Sunset on the Plains
  • The Sunset of a Dying Race
  • Skirting the Sky Line
  • The Luckless Hunter
  • The Hungry Moon
  • The Last of the Buffalo
  • Big Foot's Camp Three Weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre
  • Untitled (Nocturnal Landscape with Adobe Building)
  • Artistic Homes of San Francisco
  • The Evolution of the Mud House
  • The End of the Day
  • Rural Delivery (Where the Mail Goes, Cream of Wheat Goes)
  • Ghost Picture of San Francisco
  • American Progress
  • The Evolution of Civilization
  • The Puritan
  • Friends or Foes? (The Scout)
  • Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)
  • Burning of Administration and Mines Buildings, with Eastern View of Court of Honor and Peristyle
  • Scare in a Pack Train
  • All Coons Look Alike to Me (musical score cover)
  • Ivory Soap, 99 44/100% Pure
  • Be Not Deceived
  • Appearances Dey Seems to Be Against Me or I Must Hab Done It in Ma Sleep (musical score cover)
  • Nicodemus
  • Daniel in the Lions' Den
  • O Say, Can You See by the Dawn's Early Light,/What So Proudly We Hailed at the Twilight's Last Gleaming!
  • Overland Monthly
  • Overland Monthly
  • Mister Moon: Kindly Come out and Shine (musical score cover)
  • Abraham's Oak
  • Darkness and Daylight, or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (title page)
  • In Dreamland at Night, Coney Island, N.Y.
  • The Hide Tide of Immigration
  • Five Cents a Spot (Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement)
  • Why Night Shifts Are "Necessary": Wrapping and Mailing After Midnight
  • Darkness and Daylight, or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life
  • Roofs, Summer Night
  • Fire Scene in the Bowery
  • Fire on 24th Street
  • Midway Plaisance at Night
  • A Grocery Shop, Chinatown, San Francisco
  • Street scene, Chinatown
  • Allen Street
  • Newspaper Row, New York, on Election Night
  • Junction of Broadway and Sixth Avenue
  • Six O'Clock, Winter
  • Election Night
  • Day and Night the Recreation Piers Are Full of Life
  • The Coffee Line
  • The Silhouette Artist
  • Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago
  • The Flatiron
  • Cab Stand at Night, Madison Square
  • Fifth Avenue Nocturne
  • Out for a Stroll
  • Black Art
  • Front cover of Photo-Secession catalogue
  • Night Windows
  • The Washington Arch in Washington Square (Stanford White, Architect)
  • Wet Night, Columbus Circle, New York
  • The Flatiron Building on a Rainy Night
  • Pittsburgh
  • River at Night: Looking down on the Jones and Laughlin Mills from the Pittsburgh Side
  • Battle of Lights, Coney Island
  • American Landscape
  • Times Square at Night
  • Throbbing Fountain, Night
  • The Church Spire to Be a Thing of the Past
  • A New York Nocturne
  • Will Steel Cities in the Air Come Next?
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Fifth Avenue from the St. Regis
  • The Lighted Wonder of the World
  • From the Back Window, 291
  • Excavation at Night
  • Little Nemo in Slumberland
  • Night Windows
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Description: Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Description: Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
~In 1890 a short comic piece appeared in Puck’s Library under the title “A Chapter in Art,” in which the paintings stored away in a house’s attic begin to talk. The main speaker in this exchange, a view of Mount Popocatépetl erupting, traces its career from fame to oblivion:
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The nocturne’s antimodernism resides, first, in the ambivalent response it gave to the development of visual culture in the late nineteenth century ...
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Description: Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
Whistler’s radical formal practices and his highly polemical writings first prescribed the aesthetics of the nocturne genre. These prescriptions, adopted by his disciples and by critics, were erected into a systematic grid for interpreting the works of art. They promoted a paradoxical genre of painting, an antivision in the sense that the aesthetic codes that...
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Aesthetic considerations formed only part of an entire cultural, social, scientific, and technological network in which the notions of darkness and vision assumed a new importance ...
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Not only did the field of the visible expand through the discoveries of science and technological innovations, it was also profoundly transformed by them on a daily basis. At the dawn of the twentieth century, people saw better, thanks to increasingly precise and effective technology; but they also saw more, given the greater reproducibility of images....
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The “antivision” proposed by the nocturnes rested in reality on a threefold rejection of vision: first, formal abstraction; second, an effort to escape the domain of the visible, which was invaded by an aggressive proliferation of images; and third, a corresponding movement toward interiority ...
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When commentators equated civilization with the aesthetic refinement of the nocturne, they were proposing a political interpretation of landscape painting ...
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I would first like to address the methodological problems raised by a “racial” interpretation of the nocturnes ...
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The anticipatory nostalgia of Searchlight mirrors the elegiac meditation conveyed by the nocturnal imagery of the West ...
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The ethnic Other preoccupying American culture during this period was not just the figure of the Indian or the inhabitant of future American colonies ...
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At a time when the United States was embarking on imperial conquest overseas, another frontier opened in urban territory ...
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Night in art; Cities and towns in art; Slums; Poverty in art; Emigration and immigration ...
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With urban growth, all of society had to revise its image. Traditional manners and conventions were turned on their head by the new living conditions of city dwell-ers, who had to entirely rethink their social relations ...
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Description: Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
Some representations of the urban night accommodated the presence of the Other one way or another, using contrast or the picturesque to keep it at a distance, or immersing it in an ambiguous darkness. In a good number of images, however, artists attempted to depict the urban environment in and of itself, neglecting or effacing the marks of human presence. They...
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In 1907 the New York Herald published an installment of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo, in which the young hero dreams he is lost among skyscrapers in the company of Imp, a recurring secondary character (fig. 150). Both of them have reached gigantic Alice in Wonderland proportions that comparatively...
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