American art and architecture / Michael J. Lewis.

Main entry:

Lewis, Michael J., 1957- author.

Title & Author:

American art and architecture / Michael J. Lewis.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, [2006]

Description:

336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Series:

World of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780500203910 (pbk.)
0500203911 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, American.
Architecture, American.
Art américain.
Architecture américaine.
Kunst
USA
Einführung

Form/genre:

Einführung.

Added entries:

World of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245490
Call No.: BIB 175121
Status: Available

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