American Icons
by Gaehtgens, Thomas W.; Ickstadt, Heinz; Getty Center for the History of Art and the HumanitiesFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-02-01
Publisher(s): J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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Summary
This series explores open questions at the intersection of art history and the humanities.Essays by cultural and art historians initiate an interdisciplinary discussion on the complex relationship between American and European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author Biography
Thomas W. Gaehtgens is professor of art history at the Institute for Art History of the Free University, Berlin. Heinz Ickstadt is professor of American literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Free University, Berlin.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| American Genesis: The Landing of Christopher Columbus | |
| West, and the Tradition of European High Art | |
| Self, Time, and Object in American Art | |
| Romantic Landscape Painting in America: History as Nature, Nature as History | |
| Inventing the Myth of the American Frontier: Bingham’s Images of Fur Traders and Flatboatmen as Symbols of the Expanding Nation | |
| Fictions of Nationhood: Leutze’s Pursuit of an American History Painting in Dusseldorf | |
| Kindred Spirits: Notes on Swiss and American Painting of the Nineteenth Century | |
| Strategies of Recognition: The Conditioning of the American Artist between Marginality and Fame | |
| Homer’s National Style | |
| The Senses of Illusion, Olaf Hansen Resisting Modernism: American Painting in the Culture of Conflict | |
| Urban Iconography in Nineteenth-Century American Painting: From Impressionism to the Ash Can School | |
| Biographical Notes on the Authors | |
| Index | |
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