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American art and architecture / Michael J. Lewis.

Lewis, Michael J., 1957- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780500203910
ISBN: 0500203911
Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, [2006]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.