American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art

Santa Monica, CA, and Chicago, IL: Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, 1993. Cloth, 360 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Ideas & Debates Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: American genesis: the landing of Christopher Columbus, by Barbara Groseclose; Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art, by Werner Busch; Self, time, and object in American art: Copley, Lane, and Homer, by Barbara Novak; Romantic landscape painting in America: history as nature, nature as history, by Martin Christadler; Inventing the myth of the American frontier: Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation, by Franc oise Forster-Hahn; Fictions of nationhood: Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Du sseldorf, by Barbara Gaehtgens; Kindred spirits: notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century, by William Hauptman; Strategies of recognition: the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame, by Ursula Frohne. Winslow Homer's national style, by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.; The senses of illusion, by Olaf Hansen; Resisting modernism: American painting in the culture of conflict, by Kathleen Pyne.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.