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Item Details
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AMERICAN ART TO 1900
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY |
| By: |
Sarah Burns (Editor), John Davis (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£51.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520245261 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520245266 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2009 |
| Pages: |
1104 |
| Description: |
Presents the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. This book highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, and institutional history. |
| Synopsis: |
From the simple assertion that 'words matter' in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words - painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. "American Art to 1900" highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory head notes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail. |
| Illustrations: |
14 b/w scattered |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of California Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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