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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot
(1819 - 1880)
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| | American Visions:
The Epic History of Art in America
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| | by Robert Hughes
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ZIN Product Number: 10180663
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 635 pages
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0679426272
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Hughes examines "art and architecture in America from the earliest Spanish works in New Mexico to contemporary art done in the late 1990s." (Libr J) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection. In nine eloquent chapters, which span the whole range of events, movements, and personalities of more than three centuries, Robert Hughes shows us the myriad associations between the unique society that is America and the art it has produced:. "O My America, My New Founde Land" explores the churches, religious art, and artifacts of the Spanish invaders of the Southwest and the Puritans of New England; the austere esthetic of the Amish, the Quakers, and the Shakers; and the Anglophile culture of Virginia. "The Republic of Virtue" sets forth the ideals of neo-classicism as interpreted in the paintings of Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and the Peale family, and in the public architecture of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, and Charles Bulfinch. "The Wilderness and the West" discusses the work of landscape painters such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, and the Luminists, who viewed the natural world as "the fingerprint of God's creation," and of those who recorded America's westward expansion - George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Remington - and the accompanying shift in the perception of the Indian, from noble savage to outright demon. "American Renaissance" describes the opulent era that followed the Civil War, a cultural flowering expressed in the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens; the paintings of John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Childe Hassam; the Newport cottages of the super-rich; and the beaux-arts buildings of Stanford White and his partners. "The Gritty Cities" looks at the post-Civil War years from another perspective: cast-iron cityscapes, the architecture of Louis Henri Sullivan, and the new realism of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, and the trompe-l'oeil painters.
| | | | Annotation
From America's leading art critic, author of The Shock of the New and The Fatal Shore, comes a magnificently entertaining, perceptive, and original history of five centuries of American art. Written to accompany Hughes's eight-part PBS television series to be broadcast this spring, American Visions is lavishly illustrated with 330 pictures, virtually all in color, and packed with anecdotes, biographies, critical commentaries, and social history. 408 pp. National print ads. Author tour. 100,000 print. (Art)
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Brilliantly insightful; delightfully written
-- John Warner, a 45-year old farmer from Illinois., November 8, 1999
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Time's highly opinionated art critic has written a history of American art from the pre-Columbian era to the present day to accompany the PBS series. Color reproductions throughout.
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