Painting in America: From 1502 to the Present

xiii, 456 pp. Includes 17 plates in color, 177 illustrations in black-and-white. CONTENTS: The Problem; Artist-Explorers and Artist-Naturalists; Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Provincial Painting; The Baroque in America; The Rococo in America; Neoclassicism: The Ideal and the Real; Romanticism: The Second Generation, 1825-1850; The Closing Phase of Romanticism: The Generation of 1850: Luminism, Naturalism, and Sentimentalism; The Attraction of Europe: American Impressionism and Other Movements; Objective Realism: The Independents; The World of History, Memory, and Dream; The Twentieth Century: The First Generation; The Twentieth Century: The Second Generation; From the End of the Second World War to the Present.