American Painting of the Nineteenth Century Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface

Name: American Painting of the Nineteenth Century Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience with a New Preface
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ISBN: 9780195309492

ISBN-10: 0195309499

ISBN-13: 9780195309492

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Barbara Novak

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In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298