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What is American in American art / edited by Jean Lipman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Art in America.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages : illustrations (some color) portraits ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [©1963]
- Summary:
- Defines the distinctly national flavor in American art. Composed of articles that have appeared in the magazine "Art in America" over the past fifty years.
- Contents:
- What is American. What is American in American art / Lloyd Goodrich ; Painting by another name / Sam Hunter ; Folklore of the banal / Dorothy Gees Seckler ; Beauty or the beast? The machine in American art / John I.H. Baur
- The native style in fold art and antiques. Antiques for the avant garde / Alice Winchester ; Shaker design / Edward Deming Andrews ; Archaic art of New England gravestones / Ann Parker, Avon Neal ; American primitive watercolors / Mary C. Black
- The artist in America. Ralph Albert Blakelock / Elliott Daingerfield ; The Marines of Albert P. Ryder / Frederic Fairchild Sherman ; Winslow Homer in Harper's Weekly / E.P. Richardson ; Alexander Calder: work and play / James Johnson Sweeney ; Autobiography of some paintings / Ben Shahn ; A day with John Marin / Beaumont Newhall, photographs by Ansel Adams ; The four seasons / Andrew Wyeth, preface by Anthony Bower ; David Smith / Clement Greenberg ; Leonard Baskin / Brian O'Doherty
- Photography. Problems of portraiture / Edward Steichen ; Jazz / photographs by Lee Friedlander, presented by James Thrall Soby
- Art for everyday living. Stamps designed by fine artists / presented by A. Hyatt Mayor ; Coins by sculptors / presented by Thomas M. Messer ; Painters' playing cards / presented by A. Hyatt Mayor ; Lithographs by six American artists.
- Notes:
- Articles from Art in America.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Art in America. What is American in American art.
- OCLC:
- 1096837
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