American Encounters : A History of American Arts from the Beginning to the Present

by Miller, Angela L. (Author); Berlo, Janet C. (Author); Wolf, Bryan J. (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780136140481
• ISBN10: 0136140483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Art

Author Biography

ANGELA L. MILLER is professor of art history at Washington University, St. Louis. Her research focuses on the cultural history of 19th and 20th century American arts. Her specialized interests include visual constructions of nationhood, early American modernism, and the cultural histories of arts between the two world wars.

 

JANET C. BERLO is professor of art history and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. She is a leading authority on indigenous arts of the Americas. Her other research interests include quilt history and folk art.

 

BRYAN WOLF is Bryan J. Wolf is the Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture at Stanford University. His research interests range widely and include the intersection of painting and literature and the development of ways of seeing from the seventeenth century to the present.

 

JENNIFER L. ROBERTS is assistant professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has published books and numerous essays on 19^th and 20^th century American art and material culture.

 

 

Table of Contents

From Ancient Times to the Late Colonial Era	p. 1
The Art of Indigenous Americans before 1500 C.E.	p. 3
The Old World and the New: First Phases of Encounter, 1492-1750	p. 23
Early Colonial Arts, 1632-1734	p. 57
Late Colonial Encounters: The New World, Africa, Asia, and Europe, 1735-1797	p. 95
Forging a New Nation, 1776-1865	p. 133
Art, Revolution, and The New Nation, 1776-1828	p. 135
The Body Politic, 1828-1865	p. 171
Native and European Arts at the Boundaries of Culture: The Frontier West and Pacific Northwest, 1820s-1850s	p. 209
Nature's Nation, 1820-1865	p. 241
From Reconstruction to Turn-of-Century, 1865-1900	p. 279
Post-War Challenges, Reconstruction, the Centennial Years, and Beyond, 1865-1900	p. 281
A New Internationalism: The Arts in an Expanding World, 1876-1900	p. 321
Exploration and Retrenchment: The Arts in Unsettling Times, 1890-1900	p. 357
The New Century, 1900-1960	p. 389
The Arts Confront the New Century: Renewal and Continuity, 1900-1920	p. 391
Transnational Exchanges: Modernism and Modernity Beyond Borders, 1913-1940	p. 421
The Arts and the City, 1913-1940	p. 451
Searching for Roots, 1918-1940	p. 485
Social Visions: The Arts in the Depression Years, 1929-1941	p. 517
Cold War and the Age of the Atom: Consensus and Anxiety, 1945-1960	p. 551
The Sixties to the Present	p. 587
Art into Life, 1960-1980	p. 589
American Art in Flux, 1980-present	p. 623
Glossary	p. 656
Notes	p. 661
Bibliography	p. 665
Picture Credits	p. 671
Index	p. 673
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