American Icons : Transatlantic Perspectives On Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century American Art -

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The Getty Center For The History, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Good. 1.3386 10.4724 7.8740. Dust jacket and edges show shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica & The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992. Issues & Debates Series Volume 2. Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe, Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag, 360 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition).

The Getty Center For The History, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Good. 1.3386 10.4724 7.8740. Dust jacket shows wear and staining. Edges shows minor shelf wear. Few pages shows minor staining.

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Book Description:

American Icons explores American self-definition through the creation of a national art. Like their writer counterparts, American artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries yearned to create their art in terms of a uniquely American experience of history and nature. Paradoxically, however, when they insisted upon American originality and uniqueness, they could not but mediate these qualities through European conventions. European methods and motifs were, nonetheless, used differently in the social, economic, and communicative contexts of the New World. For American artists, Europe was an ensemble, not to say a warehouse, of traditions and styles from which they could choose according to their interests and preferences. Innovation was therefore… Read More

The Getty Center For The History Of Art, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Like New. Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Light wear to the dust jacket. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! dnr

Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center For The History Of Art, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Large octavo with blue cloth boards in dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine conditon, jacket is Very Good +. Jacket has corner and edge wear, chipping and a crease. Book condition is Near Fine with light overall wear otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.

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Santa Monica, Calif. : Getty Center For The History Of Art And Humanities : [Chicago : Distributed By The University Of Chicago Press], 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 360 pages; Description: 360 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Painting, American - 18th century -19th century. Nationalism and art --United States. Series: Issues & debates. Summary: American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax. The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic consciousness and… Read More

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