DOC The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan Stone in History

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An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical; professional; and material perspectives; and delves into topics such as portrait painting in Boston and London; the trade of art in Philadelphia and New York; the negotiability and usefulness of colonial American identity in Italy and London; and the shifting representation of artists in and from the former British colonies after the Revolutionary War; when London remained the most important cultural touchstone. The book interweaves nuanced analysis of well-known artists—John Singleton Copley; Benjamin West; and Gilbert Stuart; among others—with accounts of non-elite painters and ephemeral texts and images such as painted signs and advertisements. Throughout; Rather questions the validity of the term “American;” which she sees as provisional—the product of an evolving; multifaceted cultural construction.