American Painting 1765-1930

In hardly any other country did painting reflect the search for a national self-image as clearly as in the USA. From the colonial era to the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School and the ...

In hardly any other country did painting reflect the search for a national self-image as clearly as in the USA. From the colonial era to the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School and the confrontation with European Modernism, the entire loth century is characterized by this. On more than 45o pages, this volume offers even the connoisseur surprising discoveries.