Santa Monica, Calif. : Getty Center For The History Of Art And Humanities : [Chicago : Distributed By The University Of Chicago Press], Date: 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 360 pages; Description: 360 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Painting, American - 18th century -19th century. Nationalism and art --United States. Series: Issues & debates. Summary: American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax. The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic consciousness and identity. Conceived and written from the perspectives of both cultural and art historians, American Icons initiates an interdisciplinary discussion on the complex relationships between American and European art. Contributors are Herbert Beck, Werner Busch, Martin Christadler, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. , Francoise Forster-Hahn, Ursula Frohne, Barbara Gaehtgens, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Barbara Groseclose, Olaf Hansen, William Hauptman, Heinz Ickstadt, Barbara Novak, and Kathleen ...

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ISBN10: 0892362464, ISBN13: 9780892362462, [publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Getty Center For The History Of Art And Humanities : [Chicago : Distributed By The University Of Chicago Press]] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 360 pages; Description: 360 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Painting, American - 18th century -19th century. Nationalism and art --United States. Series: Issues & debates. Summary: American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax. The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic consciousness and identity. Conceived and written from the perspectives of both cultural and art historians, American Icons initiates an interdisciplinary discussion on the complex relationships between American and European art. Contributors are Herbert Beck, Werner Busch, Martin Christadler, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. , Francoise Forster-Hahn, Ursula Frohne, Barbara Gaehtgens, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Barbara Groseclose, Olaf Hansen, William ...
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ISBN10: 0892362464, ISBN13: 9780892362462, [publisher: Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, Santa Monica, CA, and Chicago, IL] Hardcover First Edition Cloth, 360 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Ideas & Debates Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: American genesis: the landing of Christopher Columbus, by Barbara Groseclose; Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art, by Werner Busch; Self, time, and object in American art: Copley, Lane, and Homer, by Barbara Novak; Romantic landscape painting in America: history as nature, nature as history, by Martin Christadler; Inventing the myth of the American frontier: Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation, by Franc oise Forster-Hahn; Fictions of nationhood: Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Du sseldorf, by Barbara Gaehtgens; Kindred spirits: notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century, by William Hauptman; Strategies of recognition: the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame, by Ursula Frohne. Winslow Homer's national style, by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.; The senses of illusion, by Olaf Hansen; Resisting modernism: American painting in the culture of conflict, by Kathleen Pyne. Size: 4to
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