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The Merry Thought Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Kingsbury
The Merry Thought Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Kingsbury
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About this artwork
The Merry Thought is a hand-colored etching by Henry Kingsbury (1735–1835), dated 1787. The original is held by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3679 × 2801 px (2.4 MB). You will find it among Prints, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 10 works by Henry Kingsbury, a British artist.
Henry Kingsbury is a pianist turned ethnomusicologist. He is notable for his book, Music, Talent, and Performance, an ethnographic study of an American conservatory of music. This book examines the social and cultural nature of musical talent, understood within the anthropological framework of such theorists as Emile Durkheim, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz. The appearance of Kingsbury’s book in 1988 marked an innovative and significant application of principals of ethnomusicology in the study of Western art music.
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