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 InfoSanta Monica, Calif. : Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities : [Chicago] : [Distributed by the University of Chicago Press], ©1992.
Description360 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects

SeriesIssues & 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 noteLittle-299393--305131005449Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92022423
ISBN0892362464 (hard) :
ISBN0892362472 (soft) :

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks ND207 .A678 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold