American art : painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography / by Milton W. Brown ... [et al. ; editor, Theresa C. Brakeley ; designer, Gerald Pryor]

Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf) (1911-1998)

1979, 1st edition. New York : Abrams. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #409042
ISBN: 0130246530

Physical description; 616 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-603) and index. Contents; 1: The Colonial period -- Early colonial architecture -- Early colonial painting and sculpture -- Eighteenth-century colonial architecture -- Eighteenth-century colonial painting and sculpture -- 2: The early republic -- Neoclassic architecture -- Painting: icons for a new nation -- Emergence of an American sculpture -- 3: The Jacksonian era -- Architecture: eclecticism at mid-century -- Painting for the public -- Images in marble and bronze -- 4: Civil War to 1900 Reconstruction and expansion -- Architecture: the battle of styles -- Painting: the gilded age -- Sculpture: mostly monumental -- Photography: the birth of a new art -- 5: Turn of the century to World War I -- Pioneers of modern architecture -- Painting: the opening skirmishes -- Photography: document or art medium? -- 6: Between world wars -- Architecture, American style, 1920-45 -- Painting: advances and retreats -- Photography: developments of the depression -- 7: The postwar decades: painting steals the show -- Postwar architecture, 1945-60 -- Abstract expressionism: the heroic generation -- Sculpture in transition: 1900 to the present -- Photography since World War II -- 8: The arts since 1960 -- Contemporary architecture and planning since 1960 -- Painting since 1960: from pop art to minimalism -- The dematerialized object. Subjects; Art, American. Geschichte. Kunst. Painting, American 20th century. USA.

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