Research Catalog

Title

The American tradition in the arts / Richard McLanathan.

Author

McLanathan, Richard B. K.

Publication

New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

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Details

Description

xv, 492 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Art, American
• Art > Philosophy
• Art
• Art
• Art, American
• Art > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 471-478.

Contents

Introduction : Spain and France in the New World -- Colonial enterprise : the seventeenth century -- The tradition and the arts of the Puritans -- Early architecture in the colonies -- Early colonial furniture and furnishings -- The mixture of traditions and the arts of the Dutch -- Georgian America : eighteenth-century colonial art before the Revolution -- Georgian architecture in the colonies -- Peter Harrison and the climax of colonial architecture -- Craftsmen and patriots -- John Smibert, John Feke, and other painters -- John Singleton Copley and the climax of colonial painting -- The New Republic -- John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West and the beginnings of romanticism -- Washington Allston and the tragedy of Belshazzar -- The classic ideal and the federal transition : artists and artisans of the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson's Models of architecture, Samuel McIntire's Salem, Charles Bulfinch, citizen as architect -- Architecture of the Greek revival -- From the Greek revival to the gothic -- Andrew Jackson Downing and the tradition of landscape design -- Alexander Jackson Davis and the height of the gothic revival -- Architectural fantasy and functional experiment -- Duncan Phyfe and other craftsmen -- Sculpture, classical and otherwise -- America rediscovered : nineteenth-century painting before the Civil War -- The artist as naturalist -- The search for an American art -- Thomas Cole and the beginnings of the Hudson River School -- The followers of Thomas Cole : Frederic E. Church and the painters of epic landscape, John Frederick Kensett and the painters of light -- Democracy and the arts -- Every man his own artist : the self-trained artisan, itinerants and amateurs, ship carvers and other craftsmen -- Art for everyone : the American art-union and the growth of the popular arts, the painters of panoramas -- The painters of everyday life -- A world changed : painting after the Civil War -- The lure of Europe : the expatriates -- Winslow Homer and the epic of man and nature -- Thomas Eakins and the big tools of art -- William M. Harnett and the pursuit of the real -- Albert Pinkham Ryder and the painters of the vision beyond -- Architecture and sculpture after the Civil War -- Henry Hobson Richardson changes the course of architecture -- Louis Sullivan and the magic city -- Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture for a democracy -- A world divided : the arts in the twentieth century -- The eight and the armory show -- European influences and American reactions between two world wars -- The Stieglitz group and some others -- the course of American sculpture -- New roads and fresh visions -- The American tradition -- Museums and other collections referred to in this book.

LCCN

65021032

OCLC

• ocm00160169
• 160169
• SCSB-2050734

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library