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Title

America : the New World in 19th-century painting / edited by Stephan Koja ; with contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. ... [et al.].

Publication

Munich ; New York : Prestel, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., 1933-
• Cikovsky, Nicolai.
• Koja, Stephan.
• Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Description

296 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 31 cm.

Summary

"A specifically American form of art emerged in the nineteenth century that was much more than just a reflection of European developments or stylistic trends. It was a period during which noteworthy local traditions were brought to light, and this is reflected in the selection of landscapes, portraits, and genre paintings contained in this volume, with a plate section including 146 works by 43 artists." "The works provide a comprehensive survey of American painting spanning more than one hundred years, from the close of the eighteenth century until World War I. In the context of their genre, these works demonstrate both the continuity and the breaks in the development of nineteenth-century American art and question the established art-historical narrative of American painting."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

America : die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts

Subject

• Painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, American > Exhibitions
• Painting, Modern > 19th century > United States > Exhibitions
• United States > Exhibitions

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Mar. 17-June 20, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Making sense of America / Neil Harris -- Mapping a national identity : American painting before the Civil War / Barbara Gallati -- Democratic illusionism / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- "Claiming our property wherever we find it" : American art after 1865 / Erica E. Hirshler -- The colonial period and early republic -- Opening up the land -- The wilderness as a source of American identity -- The myth of the west -- The Civil War and the Brown Decades -- Man and nature in the work of Winslow Homer -- The fascination of the empirical -- Materiality and illusion -- On the inner unity of the world -- Modern life -- The cosmopolitans -- In the gorges of the city -- Nineteenth-century collections of American paintings / Franklin Kelly -- Constructing a past : nineteenth-century histories of American art / Linda S. Ferber -- "A big Anglo-Saxon total" : American and British painting, 1670-1890 / Marc Simpson -- "When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris" : the training of American painters in France and the influence of French art on American painting / H. Barbara Weinberg -- Between influence and independence : the relationship of American and German painters in the nineteenth century / Martina Sitt -- Italy : images and ideas / Charles C. Eldredge -- "An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" : reflections on American art and photography / Maria Antonella Pelizzari.

ISBN

• 3791320882 (English ed.)
• 3791320513 (German ed.)

LCCN

^^^99027114^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library