Previously published: Boulder, Colo. : Perseus Books (Icon Editions), 1979. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.
Contents:
Prolegomena to the nineteenth century : Copley and the American tradition -- Washington Allston : an American romantic tradition -- Thomas Cole : the dilemma of the real and the ideal -- Asher B. Durand : Hudson River School solutions -- Luminism : an alternative tradition -- Fitz H. Lane : a paradigm of luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light -- William Sidney Mount : monumental genre -- George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism -- Winslow Homer : concept and percept -- Thomas Eakins : science and sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought -- William Harnett : every object rightly seen -- The painterly mode in America -- Epilogue : the twentieth century.
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