TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Michael J.
TI  - American art and architecture
T2  - World of art
SN  - 0500203911
AV  - N6505 .L49 2006
U1  - 709.73 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Art, American
KW  - Architecture, American
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -