Taylor,AMERICA AS ART,1976 Icon[storia arte americana

Joshua G. Taylor,
AMERICA AS ART.
Icon Editions, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York 1976,
first Icon edition,
with a contribution by John G. Cawelti,
numerosissime illustrazioni in bianco e nero,
illustration on front cover: Thomas Hicks,
Calculating, 1844,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
ISBN: 0-06-430090-0,
peso: kg.1
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dalle note di copertina:
“The study begins with an examination of neo-classical images of the late 18th
and early 19th centuries, and concludes with an analysis of the Pop and New
Realism images of the ’60s and early ’70s, but it is not a chronological survey in
the usual sense. Rather, eight sections present in pictures and examine in essays
different groups of images of America and Americans, such as its symbols,
landscape and buildings, and its native, country, and city peoples. Taylor’s book
is not so much a historical survey of American painting and prints as it is a
pictorial survey of American history and ideas. Highly recommended to all
readership levels, this book will remain a valuable addition to the literature on
American art and culture.”—Choice
“Profusely illustrated, and utterly fascinating-----Every section is full of insight
and new connections and juxtapositions that have either been forgotten or
never before made.”—-Art Journal

Contents
Preface vii
Introduction ix
America as Symbol 1
The American Cousin 37
The Virtue of American Nature 95
The Frontier and the Native American 133
by John G. Cawelti
The Image of Urban Optimism 185
The Folk and the Masses 217
A Center of Art 263
Identity from Uniformity 285
List of Illustrations, Arranged by Artist 313
Acknowledgments for Photography 320
Index 321