American art and architecture / Michael J. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Michael J., 1957-

Series:

World of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, American--History.

Art, American.

Architecture, American--History.

Architecture, American.

Physical Description:

336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, c2006.

Summary:

"A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--Publisher.

Contents:

Graven images

Flattened form

The grand manner

Landscape and sentiment

Art for art's sake

Academic art

Early modernism

The rise of formalism

The fall of formalism

Art and agenda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.

ISBN:

0500203911 (pbk.)

OCLC:

64555021