Waubonsee Community College

American art, history and culture., Wayne Craven

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

American art

bibliography

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Wayne Craven

history and culture.

Renowned Americanist Wayne Craven has written an engrossing, illuminating text that begins in the time before North America's encounter with Europe and Europeans in the sixteenth century and continues into its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings in the Middle Atlantic and New England regions. The story goes on for another three centuries, right through the pluralistic expressions of contemporary American culture of the 1990sAmerican Art: History and Culture is the first inclusive look at five centuries of the architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography created by the diverse peoples who have given direction to the arts of AmericaIllustrated with nearly eight hundred color and black-and-white pictures, American Art: History and Culture includes a bibliography that is significantly larger and more up-to-date than can be found in other books on American art, a glossary of art-historical terms, and two maps. Whether as a first look at American art or as a return visit to a field that has changed greatly in the last few years, this book is a matchless resourceAcknowledging that there are several ways to study American art, Craven has chosen an approach that is current and accessible - a contextual treatment that discusses the works of art in the circumstances of their creation. The contexts he provides include the social, economic, and religious climates in which works were created; the political, philosophical, and technological movements that influenced their creators; and the scientific and literary postures that affected the forms the artworks tookThe narrative blends in biographical information and stylistic analysis along with the latest research on artists, architects, artisans, objects, archaeology, and techniques

19. Folk Art: A Special Mode of Vision -- pt. 4. The American Renaissance. 20. Architecture: The Age of Capitalism, Imperialism, and High Society, 1870-1900. 21. Toward Modern Architecture: New Technologies and the Advent of the Skyscraper, 1850-1900. 22. The Artful Interior: Cosmopolitanism, the Aesthetic Movement, and the American Home, 1870-1900. 23. Painting: The Naturalistic Tradition and Cosmopolitanism, 1870-1900. 24. Painting: American Impressionism, American Renaissance, and Trompe l'Oeil Realism. 25. Photography: 1870-1900. 26. Sculpture: From the American Renaissance to the Western Frontier, 1870-1900 -- pt. 5. The Early Modern Period. 27. Architecture: The First Generation of Modernism, 1900-40. 28. Decorative Arts and Interiors: The Age of the Machine and Streamlining, 1900-40. 29. Painting: Realism and Regionalism, 1900-40. 30. Painting: The Modern Mode, 1900-40. 31. Photography: Aesthetic Maturity, 1900-40. 32. Sculpture: Tradition, Diversity, and Anarchy, 1900-40pt. 6. Postwar Modern, Postmodern Art. 33. Architecture: The International Style and the "Glass Box," 1940 to the Present. 34. Architecture: Diversity and Reaction, 1940 to the Present. 35. Design in America: Modern and Postmodern, 1940 to the Present. 36. Painting: The African-American Experience, Social Realism, and Abstraction, 1940 to the Present. 37. Painting: Hardedge Colorfield, Pop Art, and Realism, 1940 to the Present. 38. Sculpture: Old Traditions and New Directions, 1940 to the Present. 39. Sculpture: Feminism, Found Objects, Pop, Minimalism, and Realism, 1940 to the Present. 40. Photography: 1940 to the Present