基本説明
John Rogers (1829-1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as 'Rogers Groups' over the course of a career that spanned the late 19th century.
Full Description
John Rogers (1829-1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as 'Rogers Groups' over the course of a career that spanned the late nineteenth century. Rogers himself said, 'I want each group to tell a story', and these narrative sculptures carried on a deeply rooted popular American genre tradition that was established in the antebellum period by painters such as William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham. The book, generously illustrated and containing eleven essays on different aspects of his work (including its Neoclassical elements influences and the mass market it found), aims to bring Rogers' work to life for a new generation of admirers.
Contents
President's Foreword
Director's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sculpture for a Mass Market -- Michael Leja
Looking at Rogers Groups -- Michael Clapper
Themes in Rogers' Work
Neoclassicism and the Artist's Ideal -- Kimberly Orcutt
John Rogers, the Civil War, and "the subtle question of the hour" -- Kirk Savage
John Rogers, Lilly Martin, and the Culture of Sentimentality -- Melissa Dabakis
Read, Look, Listen: Literacy Motives in John Rogers' America -- Leo G. Mazow
Folio of Genre Groups
The Life of a Rogers Group
A Union of Art and Industry: How Rogers Group Were Made -- Thayer Tolles
Selling the John Rogers Brand -- Kimberly Orcutt
John Rogers Takes His Place in the Parlor -- David Jaffee
The Rise and Fall - and Rise - of John Rogers -- Kimberly Orcutt
John Rogers' Monochromes: A Conservation Studio'sPractical Approach -- Erin Toomey, Jessica Fracassini and Leslie Ransick Gat
Chronology
Select Biography
Index
