American Icons Hardback
by . Gaehtgens
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American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature.
The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax.
The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic consciousness and identity.
Conceived and written from the perspectives of both cultural and art historians, American Icons initiates an interdisciplinary discussion on the complex relationships between American and European art. Contributors are Herbert Beck, Werner Busch, Martin Christadler, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Francoise Forster-Hahn, Ursula Frohne, Barbara Gaehtgens, Thomas W.
Gaehtgens, Barbara Groseclose, Olaf Hansen, William Hauptman, Heinz Ickstadt, Barbara Novak, and Kathleen Pyne."
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- Pages:372 pages, 142 halftones
- Publisher:Getty Trust Publications
- Publication Date:11/07/1996
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- ISBN:9780892362462
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:372 pages, 142 halftones
- Publisher:Getty Trust Publications
- Publication Date:11/07/1996
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- ISBN:9780892362462