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American Art and Architecture (World of Art)
Michael J. Lewis
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A history of American art and architecture from the seventeenth century to the latest installation and video work
Overview
This survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from the seventeenth century to the latest installation and video work. It includes all the major American artists and works, and discusses and illustrates dozens of building types, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist stores, museums, stations, and iconic skyscrapers.
The characteristics of the different periods are defined, highlighting the forms, techniques and styles that mark the works as distinctively American. The ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from European models to create a language of their own are charted, and Lewis shows how that language eventually came to dominate the rest of the world.
The author dextrously integrates discussions of both buildings and works of art, revealing the shared social and aesthetic concerns that underlie them. Vernacular, religious, secular, and corporate architecture appear alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and new-media art.
Product Information
Book Details
Format: Paperback
Size: 21.0 x 15.0 cm
Extent: 336 pp
Illustrations: 280
Publication date: 19 June 2006
ISBN: 9780500203910
Contents List
1. Graven Images • 2. Flattened Form • 3. The Grand Manner • 4. Landscape and Sentiment • 5. Art for Art’s Sake • 6. Academic Art 7. Early Modernism • 8. The Rise of Formalism • 9. The Fall of Formalism • 10. Art and Agenda
About the Author
Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History, Williams College.
