<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Art in a season of revolution : painters, artisans, and patrons in early America.</style></title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Margaretta M. Lovell.</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><reprint-edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c.2005.</style></reprint-edition><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">x, 341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lovell’s book represents an intriguing attempt to re-formulate the way Colonial American art is conceived. Beholden to a later tradition of seeing artists as singular entities whose work springs from inner genius, scholars, Lovell asserts, have misinterpreted the functions of paintings in early America. She notes that painters were--though they contested this designation--still seen as craftsmen who produced luxury goods that were in many ways akin to furniture and other “decorative” arts for home consumption and display. It is this focus on the home that drives the work, as Lovell uses American art and craft production within and for the home in order to examine American culture of that time. The book’s focus is limited, unfortunately, to New England. For introductory information to colonial art in the areas of New Spain that would eventually be incorporated into America, see the beginning chapters of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7541364&quot;&gt;American Encounters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.</style></abstract><call-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">N6515 .L68 2005</style></call-num></record></records></xml>