| Description |
319 pages : color illustrations ; 36 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
In the beginning -- The American school abroad -- Portraits of the new republic -- The voyage of life : Cole and the primordial landscape -- Naturalists and preachers -- Luminism -- The heart of the Andes : journeys to the interior -- Classicism, geometry and genre -- Homer and the heroism of everyday life -- Art for art's sake : Whistler, orientalism, and aestheticism -- The humanist realism of Eakins and Cassatt -- Ordinary objects in the artist's creative mind : still life personified -- Dark passages : luminism reversed -- Leisure, light, and Impressionism -- Beyond Impressionism -- After the West was won -- The Ashcan School -- Rush hour, New York : the Americanization of modernism -- Duchamp, Dada, and Surrealism -- Nature and symbol -- Incense of a new church : Cubist realism in the jazz age -- American Main Street -- Time and the land -- Social art in an age of abstraction -- Starting over -- Figurative, non-figurative -- Out of the web : Pollock and gesture and field -- Refiguring abstract expressionism -- California's other light -- Facts and ambiguity -- Pop and media art -- Realisms and unrealisms -- The plane of space, self, and being -- Ecology and economy : conditions of being. |
| Subject |
Painting, American.
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| ISBN |
0883639971 |
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