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Kamensky, Jane
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Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
American loyalists -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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Kamensky, Jane
Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
American loyalists -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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A
revolution
in
color
: the
world
of
John
Singleton
Copley
/ Jane Kamensky.
by
Kamensky, Jane
W.W. Norton & Company, c2016.
Call #:
759.13 K15r
Subjects
Copley
,
John
Singleton
, 1738-1815.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
American loyalists -- Biography.
United States -- History --
Revolution
, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History --
Revolution
, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780393240016 (hc)
0393240010 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
526 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., col. plates ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The provincial eye -- A dazzling of scarlet -- The imperial eye -- A son of British liberty -- The marriage plot -- The tyranny of liberty -- Luxury in seeing -- The American war -- Waging peace -- Daughters and sons -- Betsy
Copley
's smile.
Summary:
In this life of painter
John
Singleton
Copley
, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's
revolution
.
Copley
's prodigious talent earned him the patronage of Boston's patriot leaders, including Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. But the artist did not share their politics, and painting portraits failed to satisfy his lofty artistic goals. An ambitious British subject who lamented America's provincialism,
Copley
looked longingly across the Atlantic. When resistance escalated into all-out war,
Copley
was in London. The magisterial canvases he created there made him one of the towering figures of the British art scene: a painter of America's
revolution
as Britain's American War. Kamensky's gripping history brings
Copley
's
world
alive and explores the fraught relationships between liberty and slavery, family duty and personal ambition, legacy and posterity-tensions that characterized the era of the American
Revolution
and that beset us still.
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