This Is America
Re-Viewing the Art of the United States
Published on 5. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-19-008488-2 (ISBN)
Description
This Is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States is a new, brief text on the history of art in the United States from the Colonial era to the present. Broadening the story of American art, the text offers expanded coverage of a wide range of media (including craft, film, and fashion) and balanced representation of women artists and artists of color. Accessible to students with no background in art history, This Is America offers links between recent works of art and the rich cultural history of each major era with succinct and illuminating analysis of key contemporary works in "Contemporary Connections" boxes.
This Is America is also accompanied by Practice Art History, a cutting-edge digital resource environment created to help students build skills of visual literacy and analysis. Visit www.oup.com/he/watson-navaroli1e to access the full suite of student and instructor resources.
This Is America is also accompanied by Practice Art History, a cutting-edge digital resource environment created to help students build skills of visual literacy and analysis. Visit www.oup.com/he/watson-navaroli1e to access the full suite of student and instructor resources.
Reviews / Votes
The title of this revolutionary textbook, This Is America, communicates its mission to introduce readers to both well-known and previously-overlooked artists and their works. Each chapter juxtaposes examples in different media and from varying regions of the Americas with references to relevant historical, art historical, and theoretical scholarship. By showcasing traditionally marginalized creators and their arts and craft practices, the book diversifies a traditionally exclusive American art canon. * Ann Millett-Gallant, University of North Carolina Greensboro * This text is an excellent thematic approach to art of the United States in its ability to surface marginalized groups, while also being critical of how these people have been treated previously by anthropology and art history. One exciting aspect of the textbook is its Contemporary Connections in each chapter that demonstrate to students how art of the past is still relevant today. * Christina F. Larson, University of Miami * This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States decentralizes American art history by focusing on voices often excluded from the traditional narrative. Through their rich use of images, history, and contemporary connections, the authors have created a more inclusive approach to American history by contextualizing these stories within the traditional tale of American art. * Joshua Koenig, Worcester State University* This Is America brings artists and artworks into dynamic, unexpected conversations using themes and subjects that are highly relevant in today's world. This book will challenge students to rethink what they know about American art history, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding art as a critical reflection of American culture. * Katie Knowles, Smithsonian Institution *
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 272 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-008488-2 (9780190084882)
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Keri Watson is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Central Florida.
Keidra Daniels Navaroli is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the Texts and Technology Program at University of Central Florida.
Keidra Daniels Navaroli is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the Texts and Technology Program at University of Central Florida.
Content
Preface
Chapter 1: Constructing Indigenous America Early America: Mound Builder Cultures
Adena Culture
Hopewell Culture
Art of the Pacific Northwest
Old Bering Sea Culture
The Tlingit and Haida Cultures of the Northwest Coast
Art and Architecture of the Southwest
The Hohokam Culture
The Mimbres Culture
Art of the Caribbean Taino Chapter 2: Colonial Disruptions: Un/Making a "New World" Constructing and Circulating Images of the Other
In Search of Spices
In Search of Gold
Labor and Luxury
Forced Labor, Conquest, and Colonization
Power and Portraiture
Building the "New World"
New Spain
New England and New Netherland
New France Chapter 3: Establishing an Anglo American Nation: Art During the Federal Period Visualizing Revolution
The War of the Conquest
The Sons of Liberty
Picturing America and Americans
Framing the Other
Establishing a National Iconography
Building American Institutions
Staging Rebellion
The Myth of Benevolence Chapter 4: The Nineteenth Century: Westward Expansion and Indian Removal
Remaking the Nation
Florida and the American South
The Trans-Mississippi West
Portraying Native Bodies
From "Noble Savage" to "Vanishing Race"
Fashioning the Self: Native Subjects Speak Back
Imagining the West
Survey Paintings and Photography
"Cowboys and Indians" Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century: Stitching Together a New Body Politic
Painting Scenes of Everyday Life
Americans at Work and at Home
Prints and Patrons
Performing the Other
Mythologizing the Past
Art, Literature, and the Penny Press
The Mexican American War
The Civil War
Go West!
Race, Art, and Activism
Representing Slavery and Freedom
Images of Reconstruction Chapter 6: The Nineteenth Century: Reshaping the Landscape Rural Cemeteries and Public Parks
Philadelphia: Athens of America
The American Sublime
Plantation Portraits
American Impressionism
The End of Landscape Painting Chapter 7: From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: Picturing Gender, Race, and Class
Exhibiting Wealth and Class in the Gilded Age
Portraits and Power
Building the Gilded Age
Globalism and Imperialism at World's Fairs
Scientific Racism and the Centennial International Exposition of 1876
Women, Race, and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
The War of 1898 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Picturing Gender, Race, and Class in the Progressive Era
How the Other Half Lives
Out of the Ash Can Chapter 8: The Multiple Modernisms of the Interwar Period The New Negro Movement
The Jazz Age
Sculpting the Harlem Renaissance
Stieglitz, Precisionism, and Surrealism
The Stieglitz Circle
Capturing the Machine Age
Surrealism in the Americas
Pueblo Artists and the Taos School
Figuration
Abstraction
Regionalism and the American Scene
American Regionalism
Painting the American Scene Chapter 9: Depression and Recovery: The New Deal, World War II, and the Post-War Boom The New Deal
Public Works of Art
Social Realism
The Art of War
Representing War
Illustrating Internment
Mythmaking: Postwar Abstraction
Abstract Expressionism
Color Field Painting
"Out in the World": Found Objects, Funk, and Pop
Neo-Dada
Pop Chapter 10: Challenging the Past and Imagining the Future
Art and/as Activism
The Black Arts Movement
The Feminist Arts Movement
The Chicano Arts Movement Disability Rights The Gay Rights Movement
Art in the Expanded Sphere
Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Earth Art
Faith and Reason
Neo-Expressionism and Afro-Futurism
Key Terms
Index
Chapter 1: Constructing Indigenous America Early America: Mound Builder Cultures
Adena Culture
Hopewell Culture
Art of the Pacific Northwest
Old Bering Sea Culture
The Tlingit and Haida Cultures of the Northwest Coast
Art and Architecture of the Southwest
The Hohokam Culture
The Mimbres Culture
Art of the Caribbean Taino Chapter 2: Colonial Disruptions: Un/Making a "New World" Constructing and Circulating Images of the Other
In Search of Spices
In Search of Gold
Labor and Luxury
Forced Labor, Conquest, and Colonization
Power and Portraiture
Building the "New World"
New Spain
New England and New Netherland
New France Chapter 3: Establishing an Anglo American Nation: Art During the Federal Period Visualizing Revolution
The War of the Conquest
The Sons of Liberty
Picturing America and Americans
Framing the Other
Establishing a National Iconography
Building American Institutions
Staging Rebellion
The Myth of Benevolence Chapter 4: The Nineteenth Century: Westward Expansion and Indian Removal
Remaking the Nation
Florida and the American South
The Trans-Mississippi West
Portraying Native Bodies
From "Noble Savage" to "Vanishing Race"
Fashioning the Self: Native Subjects Speak Back
Imagining the West
Survey Paintings and Photography
"Cowboys and Indians" Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century: Stitching Together a New Body Politic
Painting Scenes of Everyday Life
Americans at Work and at Home
Prints and Patrons
Performing the Other
Mythologizing the Past
Art, Literature, and the Penny Press
The Mexican American War
The Civil War
Go West!
Race, Art, and Activism
Representing Slavery and Freedom
Images of Reconstruction Chapter 6: The Nineteenth Century: Reshaping the Landscape Rural Cemeteries and Public Parks
Philadelphia: Athens of America
The American Sublime
Plantation Portraits
American Impressionism
The End of Landscape Painting Chapter 7: From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: Picturing Gender, Race, and Class
Exhibiting Wealth and Class in the Gilded Age
Portraits and Power
Building the Gilded Age
Globalism and Imperialism at World's Fairs
Scientific Racism and the Centennial International Exposition of 1876
Women, Race, and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
The War of 1898 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Picturing Gender, Race, and Class in the Progressive Era
How the Other Half Lives
Out of the Ash Can Chapter 8: The Multiple Modernisms of the Interwar Period The New Negro Movement
The Jazz Age
Sculpting the Harlem Renaissance
Stieglitz, Precisionism, and Surrealism
The Stieglitz Circle
Capturing the Machine Age
Surrealism in the Americas
Pueblo Artists and the Taos School
Figuration
Abstraction
Regionalism and the American Scene
American Regionalism
Painting the American Scene Chapter 9: Depression and Recovery: The New Deal, World War II, and the Post-War Boom The New Deal
Public Works of Art
Social Realism
The Art of War
Representing War
Illustrating Internment
Mythmaking: Postwar Abstraction
Abstract Expressionism
Color Field Painting
"Out in the World": Found Objects, Funk, and Pop
Neo-Dada
Pop Chapter 10: Challenging the Past and Imagining the Future
Art and/as Activism
The Black Arts Movement
The Feminist Arts Movement
The Chicano Arts Movement Disability Rights The Gay Rights Movement
Art in the Expanded Sphere
Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Earth Art
Faith and Reason
Neo-Expressionism and Afro-Futurism
Key Terms
Index