Drawing on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, this book explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture within the United States from the European voyages of discovery and colonial conquest to the present dawn of a new millennium. Thematically interrelates the arts of architecture, painting, sculpture, and photography instead of compartmentalizing the different media in separate chapters, providing an ideal format for readers' understanding of the various historical and cultural contexts discussed throughout the book. Contemporary criticism and art commentaries are examined, demonstrating to readers how artworks are consumed as well as produced in relation to particular political and social conditions. Artworks that were extremely popular during the period in which they were produced, and later retrospectively dismissed by art historians, are also included and examined, encouraging readers to analyze the popular success or failure of individual art objects by interpreting their production and consumption in historical depth from multiple cultural, political, and social viewpoints. Educators and historians.

American Art: A Cultural History

Bjelajac, David

Arts & Photography

Pearson College Div

Drawing on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, this book explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture within the United States from the European voyages of discovery and colonial conquest to the present dawn of a new millennium. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, it text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values. Covering the years between 1492 and 2002, chapter titles include The Invention and Mapping of America, Religious Rituals and the Visual Arts in Colonial America, Art and the Consumer Revolution in Colonial America, Revolutionary Icons and the Representation of Republican Virtue, National Identity and Private Interests in Antebellum America, Art and Commerce in the Gilded Age, Modernist Art and Politics, Modernism/Postmodernis

History & Criticism

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Drawing on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, this book explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture within the United States from the European voyages of discovery and colonial conquest to the present dawn of a new millennium. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, it text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values. Covering the years between 1492 and 2002, chapter titles include The Invention and Mapping of America, Religious Rituals and the Visual Arts in Colonial America, Art and the Consumer Revolution in Colonial America, Revolutionary Icons and the Representation of Republican Virtue, National Identity and Private Interests in Antebellum America, Art and Commerce in the Gilded Age, Modernist Art and Politics, Modernism/Postmodernism and the Survival of a Critical Vision, and Globalization and the Culture Wars. For individuals interested in a survey of American art.

Laurence, King Pu

Pearson

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Known as the American Titian because of his mastery of colour, Washington Allston was one of the pre-eminent American painters of the early nineteenth century. Attuned as he was to the occult mysteries of Freemasonry and vitalistic theories of chemical optics, contemporaries interpreted the painter's transformation of pigments into light as an alchemical process that resulted in spiritual gold. Through his paintings, Allston sought to facilitate the westward progress of the arts and letters to millennial fulfilment in America. Confronting anti-theatrical, anti-Masonic criticism, Allston's alchemical paintings of angels and angelic beings also represent chemical theories of colour and optics.

Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture)

Cambridge University Press

Millennial desire and the apocalyptic vision of Washington Allston (New directions in American art)

Smithsonian Books

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American Art: A Cultural History

American Art: A Cultural History

American Art: A Cultural History

American Art: A Cultural History with Thinking and Writing About Art History (2nd Edition)

Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture)

Millennial desire and the apocalyptic vision of Washington Allston (New directions in American art)