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A companion to American art / edited by John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history.
- THEi Wiley ebooks.
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History
- THEi Wiley ebooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1685 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).
- Summary:
- A Companion to American Art presents 35newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore themethodology, historiography, and current state of the field ofAmerican art history. Features contributions from a balance of established andemerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and otherspecialistsIncludes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debatebetween scholars on important contemporary issues in American arthistoryExamines topics such as the methodological stakes in thewriting of American art history, changing ideas about whatconstitutes "Americanness," and the
- Contents:
- Cover; Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Writing American Art History; Geographies: Rethinking Americanness; Subjectivities; Art and Public Culture; Conclusion (An Opening); Part I: Writing American Art History; Dialogue; 1 A Conversation Missed; Areas of Difference; Case Study: Jackson Pollock; Concluding Observations; References; 2 Response; Mass/Popular Culture; Formalism; Material Culture; Pragmatism; References; 3 A Time and a Place; Race-ing Black Artists
- Seeing WhiteThe Ends of Race?; Imagining a Post-Racial Art History; And So, Where and When?; References; Dialogue; 4 On the Social History of American Art; Introduction; The Marxist Social History of Art; Marxist and "Marxian" Social Histories of American Art; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgments; 5 Response; References; Acknowledgments; 6 The Maker's Share; Close Analysis; The How-To Book; Reconstruction; The Maker's Share; Materiality; The Social; Theorizing Process; Conclusion; References; Dialogue; 7 The Problem with Close Looking; References; 8 Response
- "Deduction" as Intense EngagementAffective Encounters and Differentiations, or the Politics of Engaging Surfaces; Racialized Ontologies of the Visual; Messy Histories, Viscerally Felt; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgments; 9 Looking for Thomas Eakins; References; Dialogue; 10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture; References; 11 Response; References; Part II: Geographies: Rethinking Americanness; 12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History; Why Co-Teach?; The Entangled Classroom; Looking Ahead; References; 13 An American Architecture?
- Americanness?American?; Can We Still Write About an American Architecture?; References; 14 The Pacific World and American Art History; References; 15 "Home" and "Homeless" in Art between the Wars; References; 16 Pueblo Painting in 1932; Awa Tsireh's Transcultural Line; "An Art That Is Really American"; Nationalism Undone in Venice; Pueblo Mentors and Friends; Reproductions and Multiples; References; Acknowledgments; 17 US American Art in the Americas; Settler Modernism in Latin America; American Sources of Modern Art; Conclusion; References; 18 Geography Lessons; References
- 19 Only in AmericaReferences; 20 Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and the Study of American Art; "the great car of English"; In Other Words (Translations); From "English Only" to "English Plus"; Forward (Foreword); References; Acknowledgments; Part III: Subjectivities; 21 Painters and Status in Colony and Early Nation; Portraits, History, Theory; Artisanry and Enterprise; Colonial Nationalism; American Genius; References; 22 Pantaloons vs. Petticoats; References; 23 Male or Man?; Precarious Freedom: John Quincy Adams Ward's The Freedman
- The Cult of Lincoln and Anonymized Slaves: Thomas Ball's Lincoln Memorial
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78684-360-9
- 1-118-54254-1
- 1-118-54249-5
- OCLC:
- 895388779
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