Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-382) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Beyond Hartley the Modernist. -- I. Painting and marketing region. The "Painter from Maine" and New England regionalism ; Consumerism, tourism, and regional art. -- II. Inventing the past. Autobiography: creating the self, region, and nation ; The Lincoln portraits: between autobiography and public history ; Artifacts and the historical landscape. -- III. Representing the folk. The folk and the Modernist primitive ; The working-class male body: masculinity, homosexuality, and nation ; The North Atlantic folk and racial discourse. -- Appendixes: Essays by Marsden Hartley. "New England on the trapeze" ; "The six greatest New England painters" ; "On the subject of nativeness - a tribute to Maine" "This country of Maine" ; "George Fuller" ; "The Nordica homestead" ; "Fanny [sic] Hardy Eckstorm - Penobscot man"
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