William Dunlap And The Construction Of An American Art History
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781558494756
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Literary studies: general; Dunlap, William,; Art; Art & Art Instruction; American English; USA; Historiography; Americana; History - General; 1766-1839; 1766-1839.; Art, American; History of the rise and progre; History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
First sentence: When William Dunlap published his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States in 1834 it became the first book to trace the emergence of an independent visual art tradition in the United States.