| Description |
490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Note |
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition Àmerican Art in the 20th Century : Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993', held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 8 May-25 July 1993, and the Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London, 16 September-12 December, 1993"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Selected bibliography: pages 478-481. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Wrenching America's impulse into art : notes on art in the USA / Christos M. Joachimides -- American art : a view from Europe / Norman Rosenthal -- Philosophizing American art / Arthur C. Danto -- Culture, politics and society in mid-century America / Douglas Tallack -- The Armory Show and early modernism in America / Abraham A. Davidson -- Precisionist view and American scene : the 1920s / Wieland Schmied -- The 1930s : notes on the transition from social to individual scale in the art of the Depression era / Francis V. O'Connor -- Modernist history and surrealist imagination : American art in the 1940s / Stephen Polcari -- Abstract expressionism : the noise of traffic on the way to Walden Pond / Irving Sandler -- Beginning at the end : the extremes of abstract expressionism / David Anfam -- Black Mountain College : European modernism, the experimental spirit and the American avant-garde / Mary Emma Harris -- New York intermedia : happenings and fluxus in the 1960s / Barbara Moore -- The 1960s : notes on Camelot / Brooks Adams -- |
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̀To speak another language' : the critique of painting and the beginnings of minimal and conceptual art / Neal Benezra -- Antiform : 1965-1970 / Richard Armstrong -- Land art / John Beardsley -- Shattered orthodoxy : the energy of transformation / Wolfgang Max Faust -- Critics, primary and secondary / Donald Kuspit -- The museum and the collector / Gail Stavitsky -- American galleries in the twentieth century : from Stieglitz to Castelli / Mary Lublin -- ̀The body electric' : the erotic dimension in American art / Carter Ratcliff -- The media in America : but is it art? / Karal Ann Marling -- Americans abroad / Peter Selz -- It's the sheer size : European responses to American art / Thomas Kellein -- The western frontiers of internationalism : Europe-America / Achille Bonito Oliva. |
| Subject |
Painting, American -- History -- 20th century.
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Sculpture, American -- History -- 20th century.
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Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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| Indexed Term |
Visual arts. |
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United States. |
| Subject |
Schilderkunst.
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Plastische kunst.
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7.150.
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| Added Author |
Joachimides, Christos M.
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Rosenthal, Norman.
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Anfam, David.
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Adams, Brooks.
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Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Saatchi Gallery.
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| ISBN |
3791312618: $66.95 |
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