American icons : transatlantic perspectives on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American art / edited by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt.
| Other author | Gaehtgens, Thomas W., 1940- |
| Other author | Ickstadt, Heinz. |
| Other author | J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Santa Monica, Calif. : Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities : [Chicago] : [Distributed by the University of Chicago Press], ©1992. |
| Description | 360 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Issues & debates Issues & debates. ^A288166 |
| Contents | American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne. |
| Contents | Winslow Homer's national style / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- The senses of illusion / Olaf Hansen -- Resisting modernism : American painting in the culture of conflict / Kathleen Pyne. |
| Local note | Little-299393--305131005449Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92022423 |
| ISBN | 0892362464 (hard) : |
| ISBN | 0892362472 (soft) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | ND207 .A678 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |