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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wayne Craven |
| ISBN: | 0071415246 9780071415248 9780072823295 0072823291 |
| OCLC Number: | 50645614 |
| Description: | 687 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Colonial America: New World and New Spain; Architecture and decorative arts, Virginia, New England, and New Netherland in the seventeenth century; Painting and sculpture, the seventeenth century; Architecture and decorative arts, 1700-50; Painting and sculpture, 1700-50; Architecture and decorative arts, 1750-76; Painting, after 1750 -- Federal period: Architecture, 1785-1830; Decorative arts, 1785-1830; Painting, the tradition of the grand manner, 1785-1830; Painting, still life, genre, landscape, and natural history, 1785-1830; Sculpture, 1785-1830 -- Romantic period: Architecture, the age of romanticism and eclecticism, 1825-70; Decorative arts, the age of romanticism and eclecticism, 1800-70; Painting, landscape, 1825-70; Painting, genre, narrative, still life, and portraiture, 1825-70; Photography, the early years, 1839-70; Sculpture, neoclassicism and naturalism, 1825-70; Folk art, a special mode of vision -- American renaissance: Architecture, the age of capitalism, imperialism, and high society, 1870-1900; Toward modern architecture, new technologies and the advent of the skyscraper, 1850-1900; Artful interior, cosmopolitanism, the aesthetic movement, and the American home, 1870-1900; Painting, the naturalistic tradition and cosmopolitanism, 1870-1900; Painting, American impressionism, American renaissance and trompe l'oeil realism; Photography, 1870-1900; Sculpture, from the American renaissance to the Western frontier, 1870-1900 -- Early modern period: Architecture, the first generation of modernism, 1900-40; Decorative arts and interiors, the age of the machine and streamlining, 1900-40; Painting, realism and regionalism, 1900-40; Painting, the modern mode, 1900-40; Photography, aesthetic maturity, 1900-40; Sculpture, tradition, diversity, and anarchy, 1900-40 -- Postwar modern, postmodern art: Architecture, the international style and the "glass box," 1940 to the present; Architecture, diversity and reaction, 1940 to the present; Design in America, modern and postmodern, 1940 to the present; Painting, the African-American experience, social realism, and abstraction, 1940 to the present; Painting, Hardedge Colorfield, pop art, and realism, 1940 to the present; Sculpture, old traditions and new directions, 1940 to the present; Sculpture, feminism, found objects, pop, minimalism, and realism, 1940 to the present; Photography, 1940 to the present. |
| Responsibility: | Wayne Craven. |
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Abstract:
[This book is] for American art survey courses. [It] provides a thorough ... chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and folk art. [The author] presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. [He] charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture.-Back cover.
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