Voyages of the Self in America: Image, Text and Context: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature - Rilegato

Novak, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0195305906 ISBN 13: 9780195305906

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2007

Riassunto

Voyages of the Self in America will complete Novak's trilogy on American art and culture. Through reading paintings and texts from the same period against each other, Novak shows how the meaning of self has influenced and changed through American identity and culture from the late 18th to the 20th century.

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Recensione:

...the most moving criticism ever written about this primordial painter. (Bonnie Barrett Stretch, Art News)

A breathtaking achievement. Barbara Novak's brilliant inquiry into the transactions of the American self both accepts the mystery of America's many dualities and explains how they coexist and even reinforce each other. (Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

L'autore:

Barbara Novak is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Emerita at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the acclaimed author ofAmerican Painting of the Nineteenth Century ("surely the best book ever written on the subject"--Hilton Kramer,The New York Times Book Review) and Nature and Culture ("awesomely good"--Anatole Broyard,The New York Times). She has been a Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery for the last twenty-five years.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195305906
• ISBN 13: 9780195305906
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144