Distributed for Terra Foundation for American Art
Art of the United States, 1750–2000
Art of the United States is a landmark volume that presents three centuries of US art through a broad array of historical texts, including writings by artists, critics, patrons, literary figures, and other commentators. Combining a wide-ranging selection of texts with high-quality reproductions of artworks, it offers a resource for the study and understanding of the visual arts of the United States. With contextual essays, explanatory headnotes, a chronology of US historical landmarks, maps, and full-color illustrations of key artworks, the volume will appeal to national and international audiences ranging from undergraduates and museum visitors to art historians and other scholars. Texts by a range of artists and cultural figures—including John Adams, Thomas Cole, Frederick Douglass, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Clement Greenberg, and Cindy Sherman—are grouped according to historical era alongside additional featured artists.
A sourcebook of unprecedented breadth and depth, Art of the United States brings together multiple voices throughout the ages to provide a framework for learning and critical thinking on US art.
A sourcebook of unprecedented breadth and depth, Art of the United States brings together multiple voices throughout the ages to provide a framework for learning and critical thinking on US art.
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Table of Contents
Chapters
1750–1830: Building Patronage and Institutions
John Adams, Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, John James Audubon…
1830–1850: Landscape, Democracy, Race
Thomas Cole, Samuel F. B. Morse, George Catlin, Frederick Douglass…
1850–1870: The Civil War and its Aftermath
Asher B. Durand, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Hosmer, Oliver Wendell Holmes…
4. 1870–1885: The Gilded Age
J. Alden Weir, Henry James, Thomas Eakins, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer…
5. 1885–1900: A New Internationalism
Kenyon Cox, James McNeill, Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Booker T. Washington…
6. 1900–1918: Progressivism and Modernism
Lewis Hine, Robert Henri, Theodore Roosevelt, Marcel Duchamp…
7. 1918–1939: Prosperity and Depression
Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Langston Hughes, Romare Bearden...
8. 1940–1960: War and Cold War, Anxiety and Affluence
Norman Rockwell, Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Louise Bourgeois…
9. 1960–1980: Political Polarization, Counterculture and Reaction
Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Smithson, Judy Chicago, Adrian Piper…
10. 1980–2000: Culture Wars and Postmodernism
Cindy Sherman, Maya Lin, Hans Haacke, Jean-Michel Basquiat…
1750–1830: Building Patronage and Institutions
John Adams, Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, John James Audubon…
1830–1850: Landscape, Democracy, Race
Thomas Cole, Samuel F. B. Morse, George Catlin, Frederick Douglass…
1850–1870: The Civil War and its Aftermath
Asher B. Durand, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Hosmer, Oliver Wendell Holmes…
4. 1870–1885: The Gilded Age
J. Alden Weir, Henry James, Thomas Eakins, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer…
5. 1885–1900: A New Internationalism
Kenyon Cox, James McNeill, Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Booker T. Washington…
6. 1900–1918: Progressivism and Modernism
Lewis Hine, Robert Henri, Theodore Roosevelt, Marcel Duchamp…
7. 1918–1939: Prosperity and Depression
Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Langston Hughes, Romare Bearden...
8. 1940–1960: War and Cold War, Anxiety and Affluence
Norman Rockwell, Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Louise Bourgeois…
9. 1960–1980: Political Polarization, Counterculture and Reaction
Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Smithson, Judy Chicago, Adrian Piper…
10. 1980–2000: Culture Wars and Postmodernism
Cindy Sherman, Maya Lin, Hans Haacke, Jean-Michel Basquiat…