Pohl, Frances K. (Frances Kathryn), 1952-

Framing America : a social history of American art / Frances K. Pohl.

2nd ed.

New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

600 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Framing America's consistent presentation of the resonance between art and history offers a coherent sense of the evolution of a new, generously defined conception of American art.
For more than a generation, critics and scholars have been revising and expanding the customary definition of American art. A tradition once assumed to be mainly European and oriented toward painting and sculpture has been enriched by the inclusion of other media such as ceramics, needlework, and illustration, and the work of previously marginalized groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Now, in a brilliant combination of original scholarship and synthesis, Frances Pohl's Framing America provides the first comprehensive survey of this new, enlarged vision of American art. Here are the many strands of North America's history and visual culture: the first contacts of the Spanish with the Aztecs and other Native Americans; the post-Revolutionary definition of nationhood; the visionary feeling for landscape and nature; the images of social and military conflict of the nineteenth century; and the tempering of the twentieth century's heady plunge into modernism by the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the culture wars. Pohl's account is an adroitly inclusive fusion of many themes. As our appreciation of the rich cultural diversity of American life has grown, our sense of American art.
Abstract: http://www3.openu.ac.il/ouweb/owal/new_books1.book_desc?in_mis_cat=115300.

9780500287156
0500287155

Art, American Social aspects History.
Art and society.
Art américain Aspect social Histoire.
Art et société.
Bildband
Gesellschaftsbild
Kunst
Soziale Situation
Sociale aspecten.
Soziale Situation (Motiv).
USA
Verenigde Staten.
1500-2007

History

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 258304
Cote: BIB 188999
Statut: Disponible