Fine Arts in America

Name: Fine Arts in America
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ISBN: 9780226791517

ISBN-10: 0226791513

ISBN-13: 9780226791517

Edition: 1979

Authors: Joshua C. Taylor

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"Though comparatively short, it is no once-over-lightly chronicle full of insignificant names and dates. It brilliantly achieves its principal aim: to provide readers with a compact but broad and well rounded conception of the progress of the fine arts in America from ca. 1670 to the present day. . . . It is a fascinating book, full of new vistas; it has all the earmarks of an instant classic."--American Artist "[Taylor] describes changing definitions of art as much as he describes art itself, and he shows how the shifting forms of patronage affected the forms of art. He analyzes artists' associations . . . and he shows how museums and schools have expanded the audience for art. In short,…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.74" wide x 0.85" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Series Editor's


Preface Author's


Preface


Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic


The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition


The Identification of Art with America


The Persistence of Traditional Ideals 1860-1900 A Crisis for Art


The Professional Artist Collectors and Collecting 1900-1945


The Break with Institutional Values An Art Community


The Artist and Society Since 1945 A Center for Art Chronology


Bibliographical


Note


Index