Glorious lessons : John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution / Richard Brookhiser.

Author
Brookhiser, Richard [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
  • ©2024
Description
ix, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

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"John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand--he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was 'to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man.' Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull's story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist's fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world--a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
Other title(s)
John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution
ISBN
  • 9780300259704 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
  • 0300259700 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2023947493
OCLC
1404818244
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