Living still : John F. Peto and the artist across time
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on turn-of-the-century American still life painter John F. Peto, who painted in near obscurity in his studio home on the New Jersey shore until his death in 1907. His strange, trompe l'oeil paintings obsessively depict old, discarded objects including books, doors, pipes, mugs, letters, photographs, and likenesses of Abraham Lincoln. In the decades after Peto's death, twenty-one of his paintings were passed off—some with forged signatures—as the work of his more successful contemporary, William Harnett. These paintings were only brought to light as Peto's work in 1947. My project rejects Peto's marginal status, taking him out of a limited temporal and genre context to suggest that he might radically exist across time. I consider the afterlife and predestiny of Peto's paintings as integral to his practice. Across my four chapters and conclusion, I explore Peto's philosophy of posthumous success, his historical confusion with Harnett and subsequent discovery, gender and authorship in Peto's photographic practice, Peto's obsession with the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln, and Peto's resurfacing in the work of Jasper Johns.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lerman-Tan, Yinshi |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Thesis advisor | Kwon, Marci |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Kwon, Marci |
| Degree committee member | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Yinshi Lerman-Tan. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Yinshi Lerman-Tan
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