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American art and architecture / Michael J. Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World of artPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 336 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500203911
  • 9780500203910
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.73 22
LOC classification:
  • N6505 .L49 2006
Contents:
Ch. 1. Graven images -- Ch. 2. Flattened form -- Ch. 3. The grand manner -- Ch. 4. Landscape and sentiment -- Ch. 5. Art for art's sake -- Ch. 6. Academic art -- Ch. 7. Early modernism -- Ch. 8. The rise of formalism -- Ch. 9. The fall of formalism -- Ch. 10. Art and agenda.
Review: "A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 709.73 LEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A371723B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Graven images -- Ch. 2. Flattened form -- Ch. 3. The grand manner -- Ch. 4. Landscape and sentiment -- Ch. 5. Art for art's sake -- Ch. 6. Academic art -- Ch. 7. Early modernism -- Ch. 8. The rise of formalism -- Ch. 9. The fall of formalism -- Ch. 10. Art and agenda.

"A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--BOOK JACKET.

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