Title American encounters : art, history, and cultural identity / Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan J. Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts

Published St. Louis, Missouri : Washington University Libraries, 2018 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 686 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits Series Books and monographs ; book 39 Washington University Open Scholarship. Books and monographs ; bk. 39 Contents The art of indigenous Americans, before 1500 C.E. -- The old world and the new: first phases of encounter, 1492-1750 -- Early colonial arts, 1632-1734 -- Late colonial encounters: the New World, Africa, Asia, and Europe, 1735-1797 -- Art, revolution, and the new nation, 1776-1828 -- The body politic, 1828-1865 -- Native and European arts at the boundaries of culture: the frontier West and Pacific Northwest, 1820s-1850s -- Nature's nation, 1820-1865 -- Post-war challenges: reconstruction, the centennial years, and beyond, 1865-1900 -- A new internationalism: the arts in an expanding world, 1876-1900 -- Exploration and retrenchment: the arts in unsettling times, 1890-1900 -- The arts confront the new century: renewal and continuity, 1900-1920 -- Transnational exchanges: modernism and modernity beyond borders, 1913-1940 -- The arts and the city, 1913-1940 -- Searching for roots, 1918-1940 -- Social visions: the arts in the Depression years, 1929-1941 -- Cold War and the age of the atom: consensus and anxiety, 1945-1960 -- Art into life, 1960-1980 -- American art in flux, 1980-present Summary "American Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the exchanges, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage"--Washington University Open Scholarship website, viewed February 21, 2018 Notes Contributors: Margaretta M. Lovell, David Lubin Previously published by Pearson Education, Inc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-670) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 21, 2018) Subject Art, American. Art and society -- United States Art, American Art and society Civilization Kulturelle Identität Kunst SUBJECT United States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934 Subject United States USA Form Electronic book Author Berlo, Janet Catherine, author Wolf, Bryan Jay, author. Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969- author. Lovell, Margaretta M., contributor. Lubin, David M., contributor. Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), issuing body. ISBN 9781941823132 1941823130

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