American Encounters: A History of American Arts from the Beginning to the Present

by Bryan J. Wolf, Angela L. Miller, Janet Catherine Berlo, et al.

American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid exchanges between high art and vernacular expression. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the influences, borrowings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136140483
• ISBN13: 9780136140481
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Discontinued 3pd
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 6.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher