Chapter 10. Art in the expanded sphere. Early America: Mound Builder Cultures ; Art of the Pacific Northwest ; Art and architecture of the Southwest ; Art of the Caribbean Taíno -- Chapter 2. Colonial disruptions: un/making a "New World". Constructing and circulating images of the other ; Labor and luxury ; Building the "New World" -- Chapter 3. Establishing an Anglo American nation: art during the Federal Period. Visualizing revolution ; Picturing America and Americans ; Building American institutions -- Chapter 4. The nineteenth century: westward expansion and Indian removal. Remaking the nation ; Portraying native bodies ; Imagining the West -- Chapter 5. The nineteenth century: stitching together a new body politic. Painting scenes of everyday life ; Art, literature, and the Penny Press ; Race, art, and activism -- Chapter 6. The nineteenth century: reshaping the landscape. Rural cemeteries and public parks ; Philadelphia: Athens of America ; The American sublime ; Plantation portraits ; American Impressionism ; The end of landscape painting -- Chapter 7. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: picturing gender, race, and class. Exhibiting wealth and class in the Gilded Age ; Globalism and imperialism at World's Fairs ; Picturing gender, race, and class in the Progressive Era -- Chapter 8. The multiple modernisms of the interwar period. The New Negro Movement ; Stieglitz, Precisionism, and Surrealism ; Pueblo artists and the Taos School ; Regionalism and the American scene -- Chapter 9. Depression and recovery: the New Deal, World War II, and the post-war boom. The New Deal ; The art of war ; Mythmaking: postwar abstraction ; Out in the world: found objects, Funk, and Pop -- Chapter 10. Challenging the past and imagining the future. Art and/as activism ; Art in the expanded sphere.
Summary:
"This Is America: Re-viewing the Art of the United States is a new, brief text on the history of art in the United States from the Colonial era to the present. Broadening the story of American art, the text offers expanded coverage of a wide range of media (including craft, film, and fashion) and balanced representation of women artists and artists of color. Accessible to students with no background in art history, This Is America offers links between recent works of art and the rich cultural history of each major era with succinct and illuminating analysis of key contemporary works in "Contemporary Connections" boxes"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.