Art in a Season of Revolution
Subtitle: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Early American Studies)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780812238426
Subjects: Decorative arts & crafts; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings; c 1700 to c 1800; Art, Colonial; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; History; American - General; History - General; Art / History / American; 18th century; Art patronage; Art, American; New England
First sentence: This book is the result of a decade-long engagement with eighteenth-century objects that had roots in a curiosity that began much earlier and extends beyond those arts I consider here-painting, drawing, architecture, and the craft of furniture-making.