| Description |
336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Series |
World of art |
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World of art.
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| Contents |
Graven images -- Flattened form -- The grand manner -- Landscape and sentiment -- Art for art's sake -- Academic art -- Early modernism -- The rise of formalism -- The fall of formalism -- Art and agenda |
| Summary |
"A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Einführung |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- United States.
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Architecture, American.
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Art, American.
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| LC no. |
2006286225 |
| ISBN |
0500203911 (paperback) |
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9780500203910 (paperback) |
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