| Description |
360 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
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Issues & debates |
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Issues & debates.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne. |
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Winslow Homer's national style / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- The senses of illusion / Olaf Hansen -- Resisting modernism : American painting in the culture of conflict / Kathleen Pyne. |
| Subject |
Painting, American -- 18th century.
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Painting, American -- 19th century.
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Nationalism and art -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Gaehtgens, Thomas W., 1940-
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Ickstadt, Heinz.
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J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
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| ISBN |
0892362464 hardcover $55.00 |
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0892362472 soft $29.95 |
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