Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw's Disruptive Visions of the Old New World

• Autores: Kenneth Haltman
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 34, Nº. 4, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA Edited by David Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks), págs. 696-713
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the picturesque and nostalgic qualities of the artwork of Anglo-American landscape painter Joshua Shaw. The author explains Shaw's marketing of his paintings depicting American landscapes, as well as financial problems associated with the painter's artwork. The spatial organization of the landscape art contained in Shaw's portfolio “Picturesque Views of American Scenery” is also explained. The artist's use of an island motif in much of his work is also detailed. Shaw's use of nationalist rhetoric when attempting to gain investors for his portfolio, the first of its kind in the New World, is explored.