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History And Culture

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An edition of American Art (1993)

American Art

History And Culture

1 edition
  • 5 Want to read

American Art: History and Culture is the first inclusive look at five centuries of the architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography created by the diverse peoples who have given direction to the arts of America.

Renowned Americanist Wayne Craven has written an engrossing, illuminating text that begins in the time before North America's encounter with Europe and Europeans in the sixteenth century and continues into its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings in the Middle Atlantic and New England regions. The story goes on for another three centuries, right through the pluralistic expressions of contemporary American culture of the 1990s.

Acknowledging that there are several ways to study American art, Craven has chosen an approach that is current and accessible - a contextual treatment that discusses the works of art in the circumstances of their creation. The contexts he provides include the social, economic, and religious climates in which works were created; the political, philosophical, and technological movements that influenced their creators; and the scientific and literary postures that affected the forms the artworks took.

The narrative blends in biographical information and stylistic analysis along with the latest research on artists, architects, artisans, objects, archaeology, and techniques.

Illustrated with nearly eight hundred color and black-and-white pictures, American Art: History and Culture includes a bibliography that is significantly larger and more up-to-date than can be found in other books on American art, a glossary of art-historical terms, and two maps. Whether as a first look at American art or as a return visit to a field that has changed greatly in the last few years, this book is a matchless resource.

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Pages
688

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Cover of: American Art
American Art: History and Culture
November 19, 2002, McGraw-Hill Professional, McGraw-Hill
in English
Cover of: American Art
American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition
November 8, 2002, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: American Art
American Art: History and Culture
November 19, 2002, McGraw-Hill Professional
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
Cover of: American Art
American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition
November 8, 2002, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
in English
Cover of: American art
American art: history and culture
1994, H.N. Abrams
in English
Cover of: American art
American art: history and culture
1994, Brown & Benchmark
in English
Cover of: American art
American art: history and culture
1994, H.N. Abrams
in English
Cover of: American Art
American Art: History And Culture
November 1, 1993, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: American art
American art: history and culture
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Library of Congress
N6505 .C7 1994

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
688
Dimensions
10.8 x 8.3 x 2 inches
Weight
4.1 pounds

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Open Library
OL7761755M
Internet Archive
americanarthisto0000crav
ISBN 10
0697167631
ISBN 13
9780697167637
LCCN
93071038
Library Thing
59156
Goodreads
1643426

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