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American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art
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American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual languag, American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art has a rating of 2 stars
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  • American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art
  • Written by author Thomas W. Gaehtgens
  • Published by The Getty Center For The History Of Art, July 1996
  • American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual languag
  • American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language int
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Introduction1
American Genesis: The Landing of Christopher Columbus11
Copley, West, and the Tradition of European High Art35
Self, Time, and Object in American Art: Copley, Lane, and Homer61
Romantic Landscape Painting in America: History as Nature, Nature as History93
Inventing the Myth of the American Frontier: Bingham's Images of Fur Traders and Flatboatmen as Symbols of the Expanding Nation119
Fictions of Nationhood: Leutze's Pursuit of an American History Painting in Dusseldorf147
Kindred Spirits: Notes on Swiss and American Painting of the Nineteenth Century185
Strategies of Recognition: The Conditioning of the American Artist between Marginality and Fame211
Winslow Homer's National Style247
The Senses of Illusion267
Resisting Modernism: American Painting in the Culture of Conflict289
Urban Iconography in Nineteenth-Century American Painting: From Impressionism to the Ash Can School319
Biographical Notes on the Authors349
Index353


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