American art and architecture /
Michael J. Lewis.
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.
- World of art .
- World of art. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Graven images -- Flattened form -- The grand manner -- Landscape and sentiment -- Art for art's sake -- Academic art -- Early modernism -- The rise of formalism -- The fall of formalism -- Art and agenda. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10.
"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.