American visions : the epic history of art in America

American visions : the epic history of art in America

1st ed.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

ix, 635 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

709.73 H893 1997

(OCoLC)35701208

Revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection; in 9 chapters, which span the whole range of events, movements, and personalities of more than three centuries, the author shows the associations between the unique society that is America and the art it has produced.
1. O my America, my new founde land (p. 3-67): explores the churches, religious art, and artifacts of the Spanish invaders of the Southwest and the Puritans of New England; the austere esthetic of the Amish, the Quakers, the Shakers, and the Anglophile culture of Virginia; 2. The republic of virtue (p. [68]-135): sets the ideals of neo-classicism as interpreted in the paintings of Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and the Peale family, and in the public architecture of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, and Charles Bulfinch.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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