A cultural history of American art from early Colonial times through the late twentieth-century, tracing the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts, and featuring 752 black-and-white and color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-603) and index
Author(s): Milton Wolf Brown
Publisher: Abrams
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 616
City: New York
Tags: Art, American
1: The Colonial period -- Early colonial architecture -- Early colonial painting and sculpture -- Eighteenth-century colonial architecture -- Eighteenth-century colonial painting and sculpture -- 2: The early republic -- Neoclassic architecture -- Painting: icons for a new nation -- Emergence of an American sculpture -- 3: The Jacksonian era -- Architecture: eclecticism at mid-century -- Painting for the public -- Images in marble and bronze -- 4: Civil War to 1900 Reconstruction and expansion -- Architecture: the battle of styles -- Painting: the gilded age -- Sculpture: mostly monumental -- Photography: the birth of a new art -- 5: Turn of the century to World War I -- Pioneers of modern architecture -- Painting: the opening skirmishes -- Photography: document or art medium? -- 6: Between world wars -- Architecture, American style, 1920-45 -- Painting: advances and retreats -- Photography: developments of the depression -- 7: The postwar decades: painting steals the show -- Postwar architecture, 1945-60 -- Abstract expressionism: the heroic generation -- Sculpture in transition: 1900 to the present -- Photography since World War II -- 8: The arts since 1960 -- Contemporary architecture and planning since 1960 -- Painting since 1960: from pop art to minimalism -- The dematerialized object
