The American renaissance, 1876-1917.

Main entry:

Brooklyn Museum.

Title & Author:

The American renaissance, 1876-1917.

Publication:

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published for the exhibition the American renaissance, 1876-1917."
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (page 200).
Foreword / Michael Botwinick -- The great civilization / Richard Guy Wilson -- Expressions of identity -- Cultural conditions -- Presence of the past -- Scientific eclecticism -- Periods and organizations -- Architecture, landscape, and city planning / Richard Guy Wilson -- Decorative art : the domestic environment / Dianne H. Pilgrim -- Painting and sculpture / Richard N. Murray.
Text Richard Guy Wilson &c.

Summary:

Underlying the American Renaissance was a desire to take selected elements of American and Western history and recombine them in new, eclectic ways in order to create a new American heritage that would provide a backdrop against which the pageant of a great civilization of the future could be staged. One of the intents of the American Renaissance was the unification of all the arts into one creative amalgamation that would encompass painting, sculpture, the decorative arts, architecture, and the setting, whether the garden or an urban landscape, as a unit. This book examines the various elements that went to make such a coherent aesthetic statement.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0394508076 (Pantheon)
9780394508078 (Pantheon)
0872730751 (Brooklyn Museum) pbk.)
9780872730755 (Brooklyn Museum) pbk.)

Subject:

Art, American 19th century Exhibitions.
Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Art américain 19e siècle Expositions.
Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, American
Intellectual life
Kunst
Art, American 19th century.
Art, American 20th century.
Art 19e siècle États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.
Art 1900-1945 États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 1865-1918.
United States
USA
New York <NY, 1979>
Art, American - 19th/20th century - 1876-1917.
Architecture, American - 19th/20th century.
Design, American - 19th/20th century - 1876-1917.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 95001
Call No.: 2680; ID:85-B1425
Status: Available

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