Title & Author:

America, die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von Stephan Koja ; mit Beiträgen von Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York ; London : Prestel, ©1999.

Description:

298 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Mar. 17-June 20, 1999.
Published also in English with title: America, the New World in 19th-century painting.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index.
Making sense of America / Neil Harris -- Mapping a national identity : American painting before the Civil War / Barbara Gallati -- Democratic illusionism / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- "Claiming our property wherever we find it" : American art after 1865 / Erica E. Hirshler -- The colonial period and early republic -- Opening up the land -- The wilderness as a source of American identity -- The myth of the west -- The Civil War and the Brown Decades -- Man and nature in the work of Winslow Homer -- The fascination of the empirical -- Materiality and illusion -- On the inner unity of the world -- Modern life -- The cosmopolitans -- In the gorges of the city -- Nineteenth-century collections of American paintings / Franklin Kelly -- Constructing a past : nineteenth-century histories of American art / Linda S. Ferber -- "A big Anglo-Saxon total" : American and British painting, 1670-1890 / Marc Simpson -- "When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris" : the training of American painters in France and the influence of French art on American painting / H. Barbara Weinberg -- Between influence and independence : the relationship of American and German painters in the nineteenth century / Martina Sitt -- Italy : images and ideas / Charles C. Eldredge -- "An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" : reflections on American art and photography / Maria Antonella Pelizzari.

ISBN:

3791320882 (English ed.)
9783791320885 (English ed.)
3791320513 (German ed.)
9783791320519 (German ed.)

Subject:

Painting, American Exhibitions.
Painting, Modern 19th century Exhibitions.
Peinture américaine Expositions.
Peinture 19e siècle Expositions.
Painting, American
Painting, Modern
United States In art Exhibitions.
United States
Painting (image-making) United States 1800-1900.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Koja, Stephan.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., 1933-2016.
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
America, the New World in 19th-century painting.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211332
Call No.: ND210.A7 1999
Status: Available