Gaehtgens, Thomas W., Heinz Ickstadt, David Bitt - American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteen and Nineteenth-Century American Art

Santa Monica, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992. Paperback. Blue and color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 360 pp. BW illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt -- American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursuit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne -- Winslow Homer's national style / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- The senses of illusion / Olaf Hansen -- Resisting modernism : American painting in the culture of conflict / Kathleen Pyne. VG .

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