American Painting of the 19th Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience, Second Edition

by Barbara Novak

Book Overview

This book concentrates on a number of leading artists, including Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz Hugh Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. Examining each artist in an individual essay, Barbara Novak presents key ideas on the nature of American art of the nineteenth century, framing these ideas with reference to the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and relating American art to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064300994
• ISBN13: 9780064300995
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.2"