Framing America : a social history of American art

Pohl, Frances K. (Frances Kathryn) 1952- (Author).

Summary: "Framing America takes an inclusive approach to American art. Along with comprehensive coverage of the canon, it expands and integrates treatment of frequently marginalized groups, while also addressing domestic arts and a range of political and social contexts. This fully revised fourth edition, reorganized in response to readers' suggestions, includes thirty-two chapters now arranged into nine parts, and available in two separate volumes; part openers featuring timelines and introductions that highlight how major events and artistic movements relate chronologically; increased coverage of the lives and work of women, African Americans, and Native Americans; new images--from a sixteenth-century print of the Spanish conquest of the Americas and a seventeenth-century embroidered altar frontal from New France, to nineteenth century American Impressionist landscape paintings and photographic portraits of San Francisco's Chinatown and Civil War battlefields; new review questions at the end of each chapter; instructor resources, including a fully revised test bank, the author's notes on using the book, links to further relevant material, and images for instructors"--

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ISBN: 9780500292976
ISBN: 0500292973
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ISBN: 9780500292969
ISBN: 0500292965
Physical Description: print
volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

v. 1. c. 200 BCE-1900. Part 1: Art and conquest c. 200 BCE-1821 CE. 1. Visualizing the conquest : colonial Spain and indigenous Mesoamerica (c. 1500-1580) ; 2. Art and architecture in the northern territories of New Spain (c. 900-1821) ; 3. New France : contact zones and cultural production (c. 200 BCE-1760 CE) ; 4. A Protestant presence in America : the arts of the British and Dutch colonies (c. 1585-1772) -- Part 2: Defining America c. 1765-1850. 5. Representing the American Revolution and its leaders (c. 1765-1810) ; 6. Symbols of a new nation : architecture and indigenous histories (c. 1785-1827) ; 7. The schooling of the nation's artists (c. 1820-1850) -- Part 3: Nature and nation c. 1000-1863. 8. Nature and the sacred (c. 1000-1863) ; 9. The occupied landscape (c. 1830-1863) ; 10. Domesticated nature (c. 1818-1860) -- Part 4: A nation at war c. 1830-1900. 11. Images of Mexico and/as America : the Mexico-US War and its aftermath (c. 1848-1860) ; 12. A nation divided : slavery and the Civil War (c. 1839-1865) ; 13. Reconstruction and shifting images of African Americans (c. 1886-1900) ; 14. The Indian Wars and the end of the Ghost Dance (c. 1869-1900) -- Part 5: Art, labor, and the Gilded Age c. 1865-1900. 15. The art of industrial labor (c. 1871-1890) ; 16. The art of professional and domestic labor (c. 1865-1889) ; 17. Gender, the ideal, and the real (c. 1871-1900) ; 18. Art and architecture at the end of the century (c. 1885-1900) -- Glossary --