American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art (Issues & Debates) by Thomas Gaehtgens - 1996-07-11

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The Getty Center For The History, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Good. 1.3386 10.4724 7.8740. Dust jacket and edges show shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

The Getty Center For The History, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Good. 1.3386 10.4724 7.8740. Dust jacket shows wear and staining. Edges shows minor shelf wear. Few pages shows minor staining.

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American Icons explores American self-definition through the creation of a national art. Like their writer counterparts, American artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries yearned to create their art in terms of a uniquely American experience of history and nature. Paradoxically, however, when they insisted upon American originality and uniqueness, they could not but mediate these qualities through European conventions. European methods and motifs were, nonetheless, used differently in the social, economic, and communicative contexts of the New World. For American artists, Europe was an ensemble, not to say a warehouse, of traditions and styles from which they could choose according to their interests and preferences. Innovation was therefore… Read More

The Getty Center For The History Of Art, 1996-07-11. Hardcover. Like New. Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Light wear to the dust jacket. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! dnr

Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center For The History Of Art, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Large octavo with blue cloth boards in dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine conditon, jacket is Very Good +. Jacket has corner and edge wear, chipping and a crease. Book condition is Near Fine with light overall wear otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.

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The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica & The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992. Issues & Debates Series Volume 2. Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe, Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag, 360 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition).

The Getty Center For The History Of Art. Used - Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Some wear. Very Good.

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