American Painting of the Nineteenth Century - Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience, With a New Preface (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

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 the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature.
Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2007
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Barbara Novak (Altschul Professor of Art History)
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
Edition:	3rd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-530949-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-530949-9
Barcode:	9780195309492

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