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Author: Suzanne Bailey
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780752553498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHIS BOOK LOOKS CHRONOLOGICALLY AT THE WORK OF MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN ARTISTS, FROM THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY, AND TRIES TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES AMERICAN ART "AMERICAN."
Author: Suzanne Bailey
Publisher:
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780756791919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican artists are among the most innovative & groundbreaking in the entire history of art. They have introduced new forms & styles & have helped to further push out the boundaries of artistic development. Written with a comprehensive introduction, this book looks in detail at the range of art that has been produced by American artists, with detailed commentary on 120 works -- all reproduced in full-color. Some of these are considered the most important pieces; others may be less well known, but they are all essential to the development of American art.
Author: Sarah Burns
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-03-31
Total Pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 0520257561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Art to 1900 presents an astonishing variety of unknown, little-known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. The volume highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories. -back cover.
Author: Alberta Arthurs
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1479812625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Twenty-seven contributors--artists, cultural professionals, scholars, a journalist, grantmakers--were asked this question: 'Are the arts essential?' In response, they offer deep and challenging answers applying the lenses of the arts, and those of the sciences, the humanities, public policy, and philanthropy. Playing so many parts, situated in so many places, these writers illustrate the ubiquity of the arts and culture in the United States. They draw from the performing arts and the visual arts, from poetry and literature, and from culture in our everyday lived experiences. The arts, they remind readers, are everywhere, and--in one way and another--touch everyone"--
Author: Debra Mancoff
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the careers of fifty American artists, presented chronologically from colonial limners from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to Kara Walker, born in 1969, and includes time lines and reproductions of their work.
Author: Tricia Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2007-07-24
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0060891246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering topics from the natural to the historical and beyond, the Smithsonian Q & A books are essential for any family reference shelf. Questions and answers are authoritative and accessible. Full–color illustrations and the Q & A format enable users to learn all about their favorite creatures and subjects. SMITHSONIAN Q & A: AMERICAN ART will cover the history of American art and artists from the eighteenth century to the present. The book will encompass the visual arts, including painting, photography, and sculpture, and will feature prominent movements as well as artists from a variety of backgrounds.
Author: Frances Kathryn Pohl
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13:
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Author: John Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 1118542495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and other specialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debate between scholars on important contemporary issues in American art history Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of art to public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and current state of the field of American art history and suggests future directions of scholarship
Author: Barbara Rose
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the 1913 Armory Show; the 1920s, a period of provincial Cubism; the 1930s of the American Scene painters and the WPA projects. Examines the 1940s Abstract Expressionists--including Gorky, Pollock, and de Kooning. Examines pop and op art, and the work of Jasper Johns and Frank Stella. Presents American sculpture from the works of Lachaise and Smith and Oldenburg and the conceptual works of Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt.
Author: Robert Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9781860463723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
