Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Subtitle: art and the American experience, 1660-1900
By: introduction by David McCullough ; essays by Jon Butler ; catalogue organized by Helen A. Cooper ... [et al.].
Contributors: McCullough, David G.; Butler, Jon, 1940-; Cooper, Helen A.; Yale University. Art Gallery.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale University Art Gallery
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300122893; 9780894679667
Subjects: Art, American -- Exhibitions; History in art -- Exhibitions; United States -- In art -- Exhibitions; United States -- History -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.; In art
Description: "Distinguished scholars shed new light on American history by examining some of the most familiar and revered objects in American art - paintings by John Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Winslow Homer; silver by Paul Revere and Tiffany & Co.; furniture by Alexander Roux and Henry Connelly; and photographs by William Henry Jackson and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. The authors discuss how issues of cultural heritage, patriotism, politics, moral outrage, material aspirations, and exploration shaped America's art as well as its ideas, attitudes, and traditions." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery and other venues.

Includes bibliographical references and index.