America : the New World in 19th century painting ; [Exhibition "America: the New World in 19th Century Painting" in the �terreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (17 March - 20 June 1999)]. ed. by Stephan Koja. With contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky jr. . [Transl. from the German: Jenny Marsh .]

Ein sehr gutes Exemplar. - Stephan Koja -- Introduction -- In Search of Identity -- Neil Harris -- Making Sense of America -- Barbara Gallati -- Mapping a National Identity -- American Painting before the Civil War -- Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- Democratic Illusionism -- Erica E. Hirshler -- "Claiming our property wherever we find it" American Art after 1865 -- PLATES -- 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 -- American Art and its Audience in the Nineteenth Century -- Franklin Kelly -- Nineteenth-Century Collections of American Paintings -- Linda S. Ferber -- Constructing a Past -- Nineteenth-Century Histories of American Art -- Between Influence and Independence -- Marc Simpson -- "A big Anglo-Saxon total" -- American and British Painting, 1670-1890 -- H. Barbara Weinberg -- "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 -- Martina Sitt -- Between Influence and Independence -- The Relationship of American and German Painters in the Nineteenth Century -- Charles C. Eldredge -- Italy: Images and Ideas -- Maria Antonella Pelizzari -- "An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" -- Reflections on American Art and Photography -- Appendix -- Historical Maps -- Artists' Biographies -- Glossary -- Historical Overview: America and Europe -- List of Plates -- Selected Reading -- ISBN 3791320882