American painting of the nineteenth century

Description

"In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature."--Amazon

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Other Editions

• American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experienceOxford University Press2007-01-01
• American painting of the nineteenth centuryPall Mall Press1969-01-01
• American painting of the nineteenth centuryPraeger1969-01-01
• American painting of the nineteenth centuryHarper & Row1979-01-01
• American Painting of the Nineteenth CenturyOxford University Press, USA2006-12-07
• American Painting of the Nineteenth CenturyOxford University Press, USA2006-12-11