Title & Author:

American encounters : art, history, and cultural identity / Angela L. Miller [and others] ; contributors, Margaretta M. Lovell, David Lubin.

Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, ©2008.

Description:

xvii, 686 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-670) and index.
The art of indigenous Americans, before 1500 C.E. -- The old world and the new: first phases of encounter, 1492-1750 -- Early colonial arts, 1632-1734 -- Late colonial encounters: the New World, Africa, Asia, and Europe, 1735-1797 -- Art, revolution, and the new nation, 1776-1828 -- The body politic, 1828-1865 -- Native and European arts at the boundaries of culture: the frontier West and Pacific Northwest, 1820s-1850s -- Nature's nation, 1820-1865 -- Post-war challenges: reconstruction, the centennial years, and beyond, 1865-1900 -- A new internationalism: the arts in an expanding world, 1876-1900 -- Exploration and retrenchment: the arts in unsettling times, 1890-1900 -- The arts confront the new century: renewal and continuity, 1900-1920 -- Transnational exchanges: modernism and modernity beyond borders, 1913-1940 -- The arts and the city, 1913-1940 -- Searching for roots, 1918-1940 -- Social visions: the arts in the Depression years, 1929-1941 -- Cold War and the age of the atom: consensus and anxiety, 1945-1960 -- Art into life, 1960-1980 -- American art in flux, 1980-present.
Includes reproduction of CCA Collection material.

Summary:

"Contextual in approach, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780130300041
0130300047
9780136140481
0136140483

Subject:

Art, American.
Art and society United States.
Art américain.
Art et société États-Unis.
Art and society.
Civilization.
Kulturelle Identität
Kunst
Arts, American
United States Civilization.
États-Unis Civilisation.
United States.
USA
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Added entries:

Miller, Angela L.
Lovell, Margaretta M.
Lubin, David M.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257420
Call No.: BIB 187913
Status: Available