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American Art: History And Culture Wayne Craven

American Art: History And Culture By Wayne Craven

American Art: History And Culture by Wayne Craven


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A chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. This work presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. It charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture.

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American Art: History And Culture by Wayne Craven

American Art: History and Culture is a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts.

Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting book is as much a history of American culture as of American art.

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Table of Contents

Part I Colonial America1 The New World and New Spain2 Architecture and Decorative Arts: Virginia, New England, and New Netherland in the Seventeenth Century3 Painting and Sculpture: The Seventeenth Century4 Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1700-17505 Painting and Sculpture: 1700-17506 Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1750-17767 Painting: after 1750Part II The Federal Period8 Architecture: 1785-18309 Decorative Arts: 1785-183010 Painting: The Tradition of the Grand Manner, 1785-183011 Painting: Still Life, Genre, Landscape, and Natural History, 1785-183012 Sculpture: 1795-1830Part III The Romantic Period13 Architecture: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1825-187014 The Decorative Arts: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1800-187015 Painting: Landscape, 1825-187016 Painting: Genre, Narrative, Still Life, and Portraiture, 1825-7017 Photography: The Early Years, 1839-187018 Sculpture: Neoclassicism and Naturalism, 1825-187019 Folk Art: A Special Mode of VisionPart IV The American Renaissance20 Architecture: The Age of Capitalism, Imperialism, and High Society, 1870-190021 Towards Modern Architecture: New Technologies and the Advent of the Skyscraper, 1850-190022 The Artful Interior: Cosmopolitanism, The Aesthetic Movement, and the American Home, 1870- 190023 Painting: The Naturalistic Tradition and Cosmopolitanism, 1870-190024 Painting: American Impressionism, American Renaissance, and Trompe L'Oeil Realism25 Photography, 1870-190026 Sculpture: From the American Renaissance to the Western Frontier, 1870-1900Part V The Early Modern Period27 Architecture: The First Generation of Modernism, 1900-194028 Decorative Arts and Interiors: The Age of the Machine and Streamlining, 1900-194029 Painting: Realism and Regionalism, 1900-194030 Painting: The Modern Mode, 1900-194031 Photography: Aesthetic Maturity, 1900-194032 Sculpture: Tradition, Diversity, and Anarchy, 1900-1940Part VI Post-War Modern, Post-Modern Art33 Architecture: The International Style and the "Glass Box," 1940 to the Present34 Architecture: Diversity and Reaction, 1940 to the Present35 Design in America: Modern and Postmodern, 1940 to the Present36 Painting: The African-American Experience, Social Realism, and Abstraction, 1940 to the Present37 Painting: Hardedge Colorfield, Pop Art, and Realism, 1940 to the Present38 Sculpture: Old Traditions and New Directions, 1940 to the Present39 Sculpture: Feminism, Found Objects, Pop. Minimalism, and Realism, 1940 to the Present40 Photography: 1940 to the PresentGlossaryBibliographyNotesPicture CreditsIndex

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CIN0697167631A
9780697167637
0697167631
American Art: History And Culture by Wayne Craven
Used - Well Read
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
1993-12-01
688
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