American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography

A cultural history of American art from early Colonial times through the late twentieth-century, tracing the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts, and featuring 752 black-and-white and color illustrations Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-603) and index 1: The Colonial period -- Early colonial architecture -- Early colonial painting and sculpture -- Eighteenth-century colonial architecture -- Eighteenth-century colonial painting and sculpture -- 2: The early republic -- Neoclassic architecture -- Painting: icons for a new nation -- Emergence of an American sculpture -- 3: The Jacksonian era -- Architecture: eclecticism at mid-century -- Painting for the public -- Images in marble and bronze -- 4: Civil War to 1900 Reconstruction and expansion -- Architecture: the battle of styles -- Painting: the gilded age -- Sculpture: mostly monumental -- Photography: the birth of a new art -- 5: Turn of the century to World War I -- Pioneers of modern architecture -- Painting: the opening skirmishes -- Photography: document or art medium? -- 6: Between world wars -- Architecture, American style, 1920-45 -- Painting: advances and retreats -- Photography: developments of the depression -- 7: The postwar decades: painting steals the show -- Postwar architecture, 1945-60 -- Abstract expressionism: the heroic generation -- Sculpture in transition: 1900 to the present -- Photography since World War II -- 8: The arts since 1960 -- Contemporary architecture and planning since 1960 -- Painting since 1960: from pop art to minimalism -- The dematerialized object Focusing on painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts, this illustrated survey traces the development of the visual arts in America and examines significant genres, trends, and movements.