American Art: Painting, Scupture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography

📙 In one sumptuous volume, here is American art in all its richness and variety—from its first awakening in early Colonial times to its present flowering as the leading force in world art. Five eminent art historians, aided by hundreds of carefully selected illustrations, explore the areas that interest them most. Milton W. Brown follows the growth of painting and sculpture from primitive portraiture and simple gravestones, to the paintings of such powerful artists as Thomas Eakins and such grand, monumental sculptors as Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He traces architecture from crude homesteads and simple churches to the new technology of cast-iron buildings, the marvelous engineering of structures like the Brooklyn Bridge, and the skyscrapers of the Chicago School.