1st Edition

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings New Ways of Looking

By Wendy N. E. Ikemoto Copyright 2018
214 Pages 8 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 8 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 8 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair. It opens with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic theory and explores its cultural and historical resonance in the 19 th -century United States. Three case studies examine how... Read more

Table of Contents



List of Illustrations





Acknowledgments





Introduction



Opening the Space Between: Antebellum American Pendant Paintings



Chapter 1



Putting the "Rip" in Rip Van Winkle: Historical Absence in John Quidor’s Companion Paintings



Chapter 2



Taking a Contemplative Look: Visual Devotion in Thomas Cole’s Departure and Return



Chapter 3



The Missing Pacific: The Expeditionary Blank in Titian Ramsay Peale’s Kilauea Landscapes



Epilogue



After the Antebellum: Pendants during the Civil War and Postbellum Era



Works Cited

Biography

Wendy N. E. Ikemoto earned her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. She taught at Harvard and The Courtauld Institute of Art in London and served as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at Vassar College. She has published in American Art and The Burlington Magazine.