false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660094m/642162.jpg 642162 3 In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history. 628350 1979 American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience With a New Preface total:5|5:1|4:3|3:1| 5 20 10 1 4 0 false false Tue Jan 29 06:16:39 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 06:17:53 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 12:17:54 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:18:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 08 18:08:52 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:08:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 27 14:21:42 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 14:21:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:28:49 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 00:29:08 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 27 17:02:45 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 17:02:45 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 07 19:21:40 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 15:56:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Feb 03 10:50:03 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 10:50:03 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 12 12:54:57 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 12:55:04 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Nov 21 01:09:53 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 01:09:53 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=642162