American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteen and Nineteenth-Century American Art

Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992. Paperback. Good (Light wear to corners and edges. May find pencil or pen marks on first page). Blue and color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 360 pp. BW illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt -- American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursuit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne -- Winslow Homer's national style / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- The senses of illusion / Olaf Hansen -- Resisting modernism : American painting in the culture of conflict / Kathleen Pyne.