America, a history in art
Subtitle: the American journey told by painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Distributed by Workman Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781579127794
Subjects: United States -- History; United States -- In art
Genres: In art.
Description: A chronicle of the history of the United States, including key events, figures, and developments, through a collection of three hundred reproductions of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and architecture.
Table of contents: title: First Americans (prehistory to ca. 1600); title: The experiment begins (1600-1700); title: Colonial noontide (1700-1770); title: The American Revolution (1770-1783); title: The federal era (1783-1815); title: Manifest destiny (1815-1860); title: The Ciivil War (1860-1865); title: The Gilded Age (1865-1890); title: A new colossus (1890-1901); title: Progressivism and a call to arms (1901-1918); title: Prosperity and Depression (1918-1939); title: The Second World War (1939-1945); title: Cold war and new frontier (1945-1963); title: Turbulence and transition (1964-1989); title: Into the millennium (1989-present).