Title: The great American thing
Description: The author "organizes each chapter around a single work of art, probing first its peculiar poetry, and then its contingent relationships to the history, literature, art criticism, music, and popular culture of the time."--Jacket.
Subjects: American Art, National characteristics, American, in art, Art, american, history, Art, modern, 20th century, history, Nationalism, united states, Nationalism and art, Modern Art, Modernism (Art), Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Time periods: 20th century