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9780071415248

American Art : History and Culture

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    9780071415248

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    0071415246

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-01-17
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Summary

He covers: - Painting- Sculpture- Decorative arts- Folk Art- Architecture- Photography

Author Biography

Wayne Craven (Newark, DE) is the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of Art History, Emeritus, at the University of Delaware, where he has taught for forty years. Mr. Craven is the author of several other art-related titles and has curated exhibitions at the White House.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: COLONIAL AMERICA

Chapter 1: The New World and New Spain

Chapter 2: Architecture and Decorative Arts: Virginia, New England, and New Netherland in the 17th Century

Chapter 3: Painting and Sculpture: The 17th Century

Chapter 4: Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1700-50

Chapter 5: Painting and Sculpture: 1700-50

Chapter 6: Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1750-76

Chapter 7: Painting: After 1750

PART TWO: THE FEDERAL PERIOD

Chapter 8: Architecture: 1785-1830

Chapter 9: Decorative Arts: 1785-1830

Chapter 10: Painting: The Tradition of the Grand Manner, 1785-1830

Chapter 11: Painting: Still Life, Genre, Landscape, and Natural History, 1785-1830

Chapter 12: Sculpture: 1785-1830

PART THREE: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Chapter 13: Architecture: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1825-70

Chapter 14: The Decorative Arts: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1825-70

Chapter 15: Painting: Landscape, 1825-70

Chapter 16: Painting: Genre, Narrative, Still Life, and Portraiture, 1825-70

Chapter 17: Photography: The Early Years, 1839-70

Chapter 18: Sculpture: Neoclassicism and Naturalism, 1825-70

Chapter 19: Folk Art: A Special Mode of Vision

PART FOUR: THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Chapter 20: Architecture: The Age of Capitalism, Imperialism, and High Society, 1870-1900

Chapter 21: Toward Modern Architecture: New Technologies and the Advent of the Skyscraper, 1850-1900

Chapter 22: The Artful Interior: Cosmopolitanism, the Aesthetic Movement, and the American Home, 1870-1900

Chapter 23: Painting: The Naturalistic Tradition and Cosmopolitanism, 1870-1900

Chapter 24: Painting: American Impressionism, American Renaissance, and Trompe l’Oeil Realism

Chapter 25: Photography: 1870-1900

Chapter 26: Sculpture: From the American Renaissance to the Western Frontier, 1870-1900

PART FIVE: EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Chapter 27: Architecture: The First Generation of Modernism, 1900-40

Chapter 28: Decorative Arts and Interiors: The Age of the Machine and Streamlining, 1900-40

Chapter 29: Painting: Realism and Regionalism, 1900-40

Chapter 30: Painting: The Modern Mode, 1900-40

Chapter 31: Photography: Aesthetic Maturity, 1900-40

Chapter 32: Sculpture: Tradition, Diversity, and Anarchy, 1900-40

PART SIX: POSTWAR MODERN, POSTMODERN ART

Chapter 33: Architecture: The International Style and the “Glass Box,” 1940 to the Present

Chapter 34: Architecture: Diversity and Reaction, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 35: Design in America: Modern and Postmodern, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 36: Painting: The African-American Experience, Social Realism, and Abstraction, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 37: Painting: Hardedge Colorfield, Pop Art, and Realism, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 38: Sculpture: Old Traditions and New Directions, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 39: Sculpture: Feminism, Found Objects, Pop, Minimalism, and Realism, 1940 to the Present

Chapter 40: Photography: 1940 to the Present

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