Picturing America
By: National Endowment for the Humanities.
Contributors: Cole, Bruce.; Updike, John.; Merrill, Linda, 1959-; National Endowment for the Humanities. We the People.
Publisher: National Endowment for the Humanities
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Art, American -- Pictorial works.; Art, American -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Art appreciation -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: "Picturing America brings masterpieces of American art into schools and libraries nationwide. It is a program of We the People, the flagship initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. As of September 2008, over 27,000 schools and libraries have received Picturing America sets, which consist of forty reproductions of great American works of art and a Teachers resource book, from which the main contents of this book are drawn. For more information visit http://picturingamerica.neh.gov" --book flap.

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Table of contents: value: Preface / Bruce Cole; value: Overview of Picturing America; value: Picturing America: art and essays; value: "The clarity of things: what is American about American art?" / John Updike.