COMPARING AND CONTRASTING BOOKS 2
Comparing and Contrasting Books
The Magisterial Gaze author – Albert Boime tries to bring out the American landscape in
an unpredicted manner. The author uses American art and painting to present various themes and
topics that touch on the U.S. culture and progress. Boime used the landscape to address the U.S.
cultural politics and religious issues (Boime, 1991). Primarily, the book strives to explore the
19
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-century artists' experience with nature's aesthetics occurred on heights. The 19
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-century
artworks used such elevated structural paradigm to show the American economic, social, and
political expansionist ideology. The author of the essay presents American control over the land
as observed from a high point.
Women, Art, and Power: And Other Essays by Linda Nochlin examines various issues
that affect women artists. The author wonders why women do not feature prominently in the art
history and collections. Linda wrote the book during the emergence of most of the Women
Liberation movements across the World. Consequently, the book significantly shares the
political enthusiasm and ideologies of that era (Nochlin, 2018). The author writes from a
contemporary realism unlike the earlier writers like Albert Boime who stressed on Abstract
Expressionism. The essays in the book use such arguments to champion for the portrayal of real
societal problems and not ideal ones.
The collection of essays titled Modern 9th & 20th Centuries: Selected Papers by Meyer
Shapiro discusses the 19
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and 20
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-century artists' paintings and artwork. The author explores
the differences in the two groups' portrayal of women and other social issues in the society. The
writer predominantly explores why the Abstract Art artists differ from some of the traditional
artists such as Romanesque, Gothic, or Classic artists among others (Schapiro, 1978). The essays
