| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 162 pages ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Fine arts & music |
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Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
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| Note |
Title from disc surface. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Cast |
Taught by Professor William Kloss, the Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Art in the New World -- Lecture 2. 18th-century colonial art -- Lecture 3. The genius of Copley and C.W. Peale -- Lecture 4. A revolution in art -- Lecture 5. Portraiture in Federal America -- Lecture 6. Early historical and landscape painting -- Lecture 7. The 1820s : art in the era of good feelings -- Lecture 8. Thomas Cole and the American landscape -- Lecture 9. Thomas Cole: the late years -- Lecture 10. Other views, other visions -- Lecture 11. American genre painting -- Lecture 12. Native Americans and westward expansion -- Lecture 13. The Civil War in art -- Lecture 14. The glow of peace -- Lecture 15. Art: the mirror of social change -- Lecture 16. 1876-1893: the civic revival of the nation -- Lecture 17. 1885-1900: contrasts of dark and light -- Lecture 18. Americans abroad: expatriate painters -- Lecture 19. Thomas Eakins: innovation and rejection -- Lecture 20. Thomas Eakins: success and scandal -- Lecture 21. The last years: "And who is Eakins?" -- Lecture 22. Winslow Homer in England and New England -- Lecture 23. Winslow Homer: the last years -- Lecture 24. Ourselves and our posterity. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Art, American.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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Smithsonian Associates.
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| ISBN |
9781598034998 |
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1598034995 |
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