American painting of the nineteenth century
Subtitle: realism, idealism, and the American experience
By: Barbara Novak
Edition: 3rd ed., [New ed.] / with a new preface
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Painting, American -- 19th century
Notes: Previously published: Boulder, Colo. : Perseus Books (Icon Editions), 1979

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