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Title: Nineteenth-Century American Art by Barbara S. Groseclose ISBN: 0-19-284225-0 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Could be better
Comment: When I ran across this book, it looked like an interesting read. I was disappointed. The graphics are fantastic, but there's not much substance to the text (and most of the book is text). The author addresses a lot of interesting aspects of American art in the 19th century and makes some illuminating points, but in general her anaylsis of individual artists is dry. The analysis lacks focus and usually doesn't say much to the point.
Additionally, the author's treatment of many individual artists is VERY short. I admit I'm partial to men like Thomas Cole and George Catlin and could read whole books about their art, but the coverage allotted them here is very brief and accomplishes nothing. Also, the lack of adequate biographies of artists limits the book's perspective to dry theoretical discussions. And although Groseclose devotes separate chapters to genres like art of the American West and landscape painting -- a plus -- her analysis is also a little unfocused here.
But the book isn't completely without interest, and the editors of the series might be at fault, too, (some of their other titles aren't so great).
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Title: Twentieth-Century American Art by Erika Lee Doss ISBN: 0192842390 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Framing America: A Social History of American Art by Frances K. Pohl ISBN: 0500237921 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Art in Europe 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth (Oxford History of Art) by Matthew Craske ISBN: 0192842064 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation (Oxford History of Art) by Richard R. Brettell ISBN: 019284220X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art) by Janet Catherine Berlo, Ruth Phillips ISBN: 0192842188 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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