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Jarman, Baird Eustis.

Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey's "The Quest of the Holy Grail" and the campaign for civic virtue.

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Title/Author:	Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey's "The Quest of the Holy Grail" and the campaign for civic virtue.
Author:	Jarman, Baird Eustis.
Description:	362 p.
Notes:	Director: Alexander Nemerov.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0794.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3168918
ISBN:	9780542048777

Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey's "The Quest of the Holy Grail" and the campaign for civic virtue.
Jarman, Baird Eustis.

Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey's "The Quest of the Holy Grail" and the campaign for civic virtue. - 362 p.

Director: Alexander Nemerov.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

Between 1890 and 1902, the popular illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey completed The Quest of the Holy Grail, a fifteen-section mural painting for the book delivery room in the Boston Public Library. Following the installation of the first half of the mural in 1895, Abbey's Arthurian cycle quickly became a visual touchstone within American culture. This dissertation contextualizes the mural within social and political movements in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It pays particular attention to the common yearning among the American public for a revival of civic virtue that led to the widespread perception of Abbey's Galahad figure as a recognizable symbol of the potential for culture and religion to redeem and stabilize a nation facing myriad social changes as it rapidly grew more industrialized and urbanized. Various chapters examine Abbey's development as an illustrator prior to his Boston commission, his shift to working in oil paint, and his decade-long execution of the Boston mural, including his careful creation of a unique grail narrative that combines numerous medieval versions of the legend. This dissertation also investigates the context of Abbey's unveiling of one section of the mural, The Round Table of King Arthur, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. A coda explores ideological common ground between Abbey's mural and the other best-known Gilded-Age American contribution to the Arthurian Revival, Mark Twain's popular 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

ISBN: 9780542048777Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey's "The Quest of the Holy Grail" and the campaign for civic virtue.
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