American art to 1900
Subtitle: a documentary history
By: Sarah Burns and John Davis.
Contributors: Davis, John, 1961-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 9780520245266; 9780520257566
Subjects: Art, American -- Sources
Description: American Art to 1900 presents an astonishing variety of unknown, little-known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. The volume highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories. -back cover.
Notes: Includes index.