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American art and architecture, Michael J. Lewis

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

American art and architecture

bibliography

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Michael J. Lewis

"A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--Jacket

World of art

Graven images -- Flattened form -- The grand manner -- Landscape and sentiment -- Art for art's sake -- Academic art -- Early modernism -- The rise of formalism -- The fall of formalism -- Art and agenda