Jane Kamensky. (2016). A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company.

Jane Kamensky. 2016. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company.

Jane Kamensky, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Jane Kamensky. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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   • bioText: Jane Kamensky is the author of the prize-winning A Revolution in Color, among other books. She serves as Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University, and as the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge. Massachusetts.
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"A stunning biography...[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire

Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies.

Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America's founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley's refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.

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   • source: Caitlin Fitz;The Atlantic
   • content: Far from a born partisan, Copley could have gone either way. Kamensky's great accomplishment is to leave readers pulled by different audiences, demands, and political allegiances right along with him.
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   • source: Jules Prown, Yale University
   • content: A memorable journey into the transatlantic world in the age of revolution through a close study of the greatest colonial American artist. Kamensky, a historian with an art historian's sensibility, provides a brilliant survey of John Singleton Copley's life, work, and subjects, vivified by a detailed examination of letters, diaries, and official records, many previously untapped, to involve the reader in the emotional and sensory experience of living in those tumultuous times.
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   • source: Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
   • content: Vivid, intimate, and richly detailed, Jane Kamensky's biography of John Singleton Copley illuminates the deeply intertwined worlds of America and England at the moment of their violent divorce. The career of the great painter from Boston provides a wonderfully fresh and surprising perspective on the American Revolution, on the scope of artistic ambition, and on the high costs of divided loyalty.
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   • source: Amanda Foreman, author of The World Made by Women
   • content: Jane Kamensky has not only crafted a stunning biography but also a truly singular account of the American Revolution. A Revolution in Color masterfully unravels any easy distinctions between patriots and loyalists.
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   • source: Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions
   • content: The greatest American artist of the eighteenth century, John Singleton Copley, preferred life in Britain, escaping from the bitter civil war that we call the American Revolution. In this brilliantly insightful and lucidly written biography, Jane Kamensky reveals the age of revolution in fresh new tones as complex and compelling as the interplay of light and shade in the finest Copley painting.
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   • source: Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord
   • content: A pleasure to read from first page to last, Jane Kamensky's exploration of the life, work and tumultuous times of John Singleton Copley is itself a masterpiece. Like all excellent portraitists, Kamensky probes deeply into the character of her subject, as deft with the small, revealing detail as she is with the sweeping strokes of landscape and setting. Both gripping narrative history and insightful art criticism, A Revolution in Color is a genre-busting tour de force.
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   • source: Annette Gordon-Reed, author of "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"
   • content: Beautifully written and elegant, A Revolution in Color gives us a vibrant and new perspective on the conflict between America and Great Britain, a conflict the ambitious John Singleton Copley embodied. Jane Kamensky enriches our understanding of this vital time in world history.
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   • source: Donna Seaman;Booklist (starred)
   • content: Richly resourced, prismatic, dynamic, factually and psychologically revelatory, and ebulliently spiked with political insights and ironies, Kamensky's biography provides an intimate view of the American Revolution and its immediate aftermath as seen through the "acute, penetrating" gaze of a masterful artist.
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred)
   • content: There may never be a better biography of Copley than this sumptuous, exquisitely told story of a man and his time.
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      Starred review from July 1, 2016
      A majestic portrait of the American painter.Kamensky (History/Harvard Univ.; The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse, 2008, etc.) delivers a masterful portrayal of John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), a "cautious man in a rash age," his story "peculiarly American: hard-edged, uncloaked, impolite." The author beautifully merges biography with history to tell the story of one of America's earliest and finest portrait painters. Along the way, she provides insightful profiles of many of Copley's key contemporaries, including Benjamin West and Joshua Reynolds. Born into a poor Boston household, Copley seemed destined to draw and paint. When his mother married a second time, to a portrait painter, Copley was able to take advantage of his new father's skills and materials to teach himself to paint. It was his calling, and his business as a supremely gifted portrait painter of local businessmen and British officers took off. In the 1750s, his craft improved, with "fabrics that shimmered, almost rustled; eyes that seemed to have mind, even spirit behind them." By 1764, he was experimenting with full-scale portraits. He painted the impressive A Boy with a Flying Squirrel in 1765, with his brother as the model. His portrait of John Hancock followed, and in 1768, he painted an iconic masterpiece, Paul Revere. At the time, Britain was relentlessly taxing items, including "painters colours," and passing repressive acts. As a loyalist, Copley kept his politics quiet, but after the Boston Tea Party in 1773, he feared for his family. He sailed to England in 1774, never to return. He began painting large historical paintings, but, as Kamensky writes, "his insight diminished." After signing the Treaty of Paris, John Adams sat for Copley in London for a portrait. Shortly after, Copley died "beneath a mountain of debts." An ocean away, the painter's halting rebirth began. There may never be a better biography of Copley than this sumptuous, exquisitely told story of a man and his time.

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      Starred review from September 1, 2016
      John Singleton Copley's finest works were his portraits, and Kamensky (The Exchange Artist, 2008) portrays the portraitist with the literary equivalent of his visual expressiveness with color, detail, and emotional discernment. She brings us into Copley's volatile world, beginning with his humble boyhood home in colonial Boston, where ocean winds delivered both commerce and war. Responsible, at age 13, for his twice-widowed mother and half-brother, Copley, as ambitious and diligent as he was gifted, taught himself to paint in a virtual aesthetic vacuum, securing enough commissions by age 20 to buy property. Kamensky traces the narrow line Copley walked as he painted both British officials and fervent patriots, including Paul Revere, a balancing act that became exponentially more dire when he married the daughter of a tea merchant at the height of the riotous protests against British taxation. Copley holds steady, shipping paintings to London in pursuit of critical guidance, only to be told that he must see Europe's masterworks. With the War of Independence brewing at home, Copley tours Italy and settles in London, where he assiduously creates astonishingly intricate paintings, from elegant portraits of the elite and his own loving family to enormous epic dramas, including Watson and the Shark and The Death of Major Peirson. Kamensky, whose avidly inquisitive immersions in each mesmerizing canvas double our appreciation for Copley's achievements, observes that the artist chased both soaring grandeur and earthbound fidelity. Richly resourced, prismatic, dynamic, factually and psychologically revelatory, and ebulliently spiked with political insights and ironies, Kamensky's biography provides an intimate view of the American Revolution and its immediate aftermath as seen through the acute, penetrating gaze of a masterful artist at work in the thick of it.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution, rife with divided loyalties and tangled sympathies.

Famed today for his portraits of patriot leaders like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, Copley is celebrated as one of America's founding artists. But, married to the daughter of a tea merchant and seeking artistic approval from abroad, he could not sever his own ties with Great Britain. Rather, ambition took him to London just as the war began. His view from abroad as rich and fascinating as his harrowing experiences of patriotism in Boston, Copley's refusal to choose sides cost him dearly. Yet to this day, his towering artistic legacy remains shared by America and Britain alike.

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