Trouble in Paradise

Alan Wallach, Ph.D. (1973), is the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at the College of William and Mary.

• AcknowledgementsCopyright AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroductionPart 1 Circa 1977: State of the Field1 John Wilmerding’s American Art (1977)2 Trouble in Paradise (1977)Part 2 Six Critical Museum Studies3 Rereading an anti-catalog: Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998)4 ‘Norman Rockwell’ at the Guggenheim (2003)5 The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict (2006)6 The Unethical Art Museum (2006)7 Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B.Durand’s Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008)8 The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010)Part 3 Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School9 Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993)10 Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994)11 Thomas Cole’s River in the Catskills as Anti-Pastoral (2002)12 Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007)13 Rethinking ‘Luminism’: Taste, Class, and Aestheticizing Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011)14 Patronage and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023)Part 4 Short Takes15 Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005)16 Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979)17 Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991)18 Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022)Part 5 Historiographical Reflections19 Meyer Schapiro’s Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997)20 Oliver Larkin’s Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001)21 On the Social History of American Art (2015)22 Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015)23 Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017)24 ‘A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject’ (2019)CodaCapitalism and the History of United States Art (2023)BibliographyIndex