America Art and the West by Celeste Adams ISBN 13: 9780642101358

Australia: American-Australian Foundation for the Arts / International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited. Exhibition catalogue, 132 pages, illustrated. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition.. 1986.

H.N. Abrams, 1986 2024-05-14. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 131 pp.; profusely ill. with color plates, 4to.: Sharp corners, no ownership markings, light creasing to front-wrap, else Fine: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

The American-Australian Foundation for the Arts and the international cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, Australia, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Various. Lenders to the Exhibition, International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, The American-Australian Foundation for the Arts, foreword by James B. Leslie, Chairman International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, acknowledgements, preface by Edmund Capon, Director Art Gallery of New South Wales, introduction by a Celeste Marie Adams, curator, index of artists & biographies. Black coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white reproductions of numerous artists works within the exhibition. Black coloured cloth covered boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, being a reproduction of Wayne Thiebaud's work "Cliffs, 1968 ", with white titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. A… Read More

U.S.A.: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1986. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 134pp, beautiful exhibition catalogue for an exhibition org. by the American-Australian foundation for the arts and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Size: Square 4to

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Top of dust jacket has a curl. Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. Presentation copy including signed compliments slip from The American-Australian Foundation for the Arts.
America, less than fifty ears from declaration of national independence, turned its persistent gaze away from Europe in the East toward the expanse of its native unsettled West. All that was purely America shone in the late-day sun, untouched and untroubled by the shadow of European culture. The westward explorations launched at the beginning of the nineteenth century piqued the curiosity of eastern seaboard residents seeking information about the peculiar character of a remote frontier. Early enthusiasm for the Indian portraits and documentary renderings of the western trails by painter-explorers gave way to changing attitudes by mid century. Inspired by a new spirit of national idealism, America's first school of formally trained artists created grand and monumental landscape paintings of the West. A land of… Read More