Anglo-American

David Peters Corbett is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and Editor of Art History. He has written widely on English and American art between 1850 and 1950, and has published most recently on the Ashcan School and on the problem of the past in the work of Charles Sheeler.Sarah Monks is Lecturer in Art History in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia. The author of Marine Painting in Britain, 1650-1850, and co-editor of Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848, both forthcoming, she is currently working on a new book project concerning the relationship between British art and global commerce, experience and imperial ideology during the eighteenth century.

“Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.”  (Choice, 1 May 2013)

• 6 Notes on Contributors8 Chapter 1 Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USADavid Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks30 Chapter 2 The Wolfe Man: Benjamin West’s Anglo-American AccentSarah Monks52 Chapter 3 Failure to Deliver: Watson and the Shark and the Boston Tea PartyJennifer L. Roberts74 Chapter 4 Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw’s Disruptive Visions of the Old New WorldKenneth Haltman92 Chapter 5 Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Post-Emancipation JamaicaJennifer Raab110 Chapter 6 Troubled Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du MaurierJennifer A. Greenhill132 Chapter 7 ‘In seen and unseen places’: The Henry G. Marquand House and Collections in England and AmericaMelody Barnett Deusner152 Chapter 8 Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the ‘Anglo-American’ in the Work of Walter Sickert and John SloanDavid Peters Corbett174 Chapter 9 Losing Sight: War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22David M. Lubin196 Chapter 10 The Madness of Art: Georgia O’Keeffe and Virginia WoolfAlexander Nemerov216 Chapter 11 ‘Strange Encounters’: Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Proposed Colossal Monuments’ for New York and LondonJo Applin236 Chapter 12 David Hockney: A Taste for Los AngelesCécile Whiting253 Index