| Description |
616 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 590-603. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The Colonial period. Early Colonial architecture -- Early Colonial painting and sculpture -- Eighteenth-century Colonial architecture -- Eighteenth-century colonial painting and sculpture -- pt. 2. The early republic. Neoclassic architecture -- Painting: icons for a new nation -- Emergence of an American sculpture -- pt. 3. The Jacksonian era. Architecture: eclecticism at mid-century -- Painting for the public -- Images in marble and bronze -- pt. 4. Civil War to 1900: reconstruction and expansion. Architecture: the battle of styles -- Painting: the gilded age -- Sculpture: mosly monumental -- Photography: the birth of a new art -- pt. 5. Turn of the century to World War I. Pioneers of modern architecture -- Painting: the opening skirmishes -- Photography: document or art medium? -- pt. 6. Between world wars. Architecture, American style, 1920-45 -- Painting: advances and retreats -- Photography: developments of the Depression -- pt. 7. The postwar decades: painting steals the show. Postwar architecture, 1945-60. Abstract expressionism: the heroic generation -- Sculpture in transition: 1900 to the present -- Photography since World War II -- pt. 8. The arts since 1960. Contemporary architecture and planning since 1960 -- Painting since 1960: from pop art to minimalism -- The dematerialized object. |
| Subject |
Art, American.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998.
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Brakeley, Theresa C.
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| ISBN |
0130246530 |
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9780130246530 |
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