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American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity

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American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity

American Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions.

ArtHumanities
Author
Angela L Miller, Janet Catherine Berlo, Bryan J Wolf, and Jennifer L Roberts
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LibreTexts
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CC BY-NC-SA
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Contents· 113 sections
  1. 01: The Art of Indigenous Americans before 1500 C.E.
  2. 01: The Art of Indigenous Americans BEFORE 1500 C.E.
  3. 1.01: The Art of the Eastern Woodlands
  4. 1.02: Arctic Alaska
  5. 1.03: Ancient Art of the 'southwest
  6. 1.04: Conclusion
  7. 02: The Old World and the New- First Phases of Encounter 1492-1750
  8. 2.01: European Images of the New World- The First Century
  9. 2.02: Indigenous Eastern North America- Forging a Middle Ground
  10. 2.03: Northern New Spain- Crossroads of Cultures
  11. 2.04: Conclusion
  12. 03: Early Colonial Arts 1632-1734
  13. 3.01: Designing Cities Partitioning Land Imaging Utopia
  14. 3.02: Seventeenth-Century Painting- Puritans in Kid Gloves
  15. 3.03: Hispanic Village Arts
  16. 3.04: Architecture and Memory
  17. 3.05: Design Material Culture and the Decorative Arts
  18. 3.06: Representing Race- Black in Colonial America
  19. 3.07: Conclusion
  20. 04: Late Colonial Encounters- The New World Africa Asia and Europe 1735-1797
  21. 4.01: The African Diaspora
  22. 4.02: Virginia- Eighteenth-Century Land Art
  23. 4.03: Palladio and Georgian Building
  24. 4.04: The Mission System in Texas Arizona and California
  25. 4.05: The Crafted Object
  26. 4.06: Artists Painting
  27. 4.07: Conclusion
  28. 02: The Old World and the New- First Phases of Encounter 1492-1750
  29. 05: Art Revolution and The New Nation 1776-1828
  30. 5.01: The American Revolution in Print Paint and Action
  31. 5.02: Classical America
  32. 5.03: Painting in the New Nation
  33. 5.04: Conclusion
  34. 06: The Body Politic 1828-1865
  35. 6.01: The Language of Emotion
  36. 6.02: Art of the People
  37. 6.03: The Cultural Work of Genre Painting
  38. 6.04: Conclusion
  39. 07: Native and European Arts at the Boundaries of Culture- The Frontier West and Pacific Northwest 1820s-1850s
  40. 7.01: Plains Cultures of the West- From Both Sides
  41. 7.02: Living Traditions and Icons of Defeat
  42. 7.03: Native Arts of Alaska
  43. 7.04: Conclusion
  44. 08: Nature's Nation 1820-1865
  45. 8.01: Why Paint Landscapes
  46. 8.02: The Sublime- The Formation and Development of the Hudson River School of Painting
  47. 8.03: Representing War
  48. 8.04: Conclusion
  49. 03: Early Colonial Arts 1632-1734
  50. 09: Post-War Challenges- Reconstruction the Centennial Years and Beyond 1865-1900
  51. 9.01: Representing Race- From Emancipation to Jim Crow
  52. 9.02: Facing Off- Divided Loyalties
  53. 9.03: The Post-War West- Expansion Incorporation and the Persistence of the Local 1860-1900
  54. 9.04: The Clash of Cultures From Both Sides
  55. 9.05: Conclusion
  56. 10: A New Internationalism- The Arts in an Expanding World 1876-1900
  57. 10.01: The Cosmopolitan Spirit in American Art
  58. 10.02: The New American Architecture
  59. 10.03: Reform and Innovation- Handcraft and Mechanization in the Decorative Arts 1860-1900
  60. 10.04: Conclusion
  61. 11: Exploration and Retrenchment- The Arts in Unsettling Times 1890-1900
  62. 11.01: Victorian into Modern- Exploring the Boundaries between Mind and World
  63. 11.02: Feminine Masculine- Gender and Late-Nineteenth Century Arts
  64. 11.03: Reasserting Cultural Authority
  65. 11.04: Photography and Modernity
  66. 11.05: Conclusion
  67. 04: Late Colonial Encounters- The New World Africa Asia and Europe 1735-1797
  68. 12: The Arts Confront the New Century- Renewal and Continuity 1900-1920
  69. 12.01: Early-Twentieth-Century Urban Realism
  70. 12.02: The Road to Abstraction
  71. 12.03: Photography- From Pictorialism to Straight
  72. 12.04: Conclusion
  73. 13: Transnational Exchanges- Modernism and Modernity Beyond Borders 1913-1940
  74. 13.01: American Apprenticeship to European Modernism
  75. 13.02: American Modernity From Both Sides
  76. 13.03: Sculpture- The Primitive and the Modern
  77. 13.04: Architectural Encounters- Transnational Circuits
  78. 13.05: Conclusion
  79. 14: The Arts and the City 1913-1940
  80. 14.01: The Skyscraper in Architecture and the Arts
  81. 14.02: The Urban Industrial Image 1910-30
  82. 14.03: The Commercial Landscape of the Everyday
  83. 14.04: The Human City- Spectacle Memory Desire
  84. 14.05: Conclusion
  85. 15: Searching for Roots 1918-1940
  86. 15.01: The Rediscovery of America
  87. 15.02: Preservation Tradition and Reinvention in the Twentieth Century
  88. 15.03: Festivals- Invented Traditions and Ancestral Memories
  89. 15.04: The New Negro Movement and Versions of a Black Art
  90. 15.05: Conclusion
  91. 16: Social Visions- The Arts in the Depression years 1929-1941
  92. 16.01: The Depression and the Narrative Impulse
  93. 16.02: Federal Patronage- Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  94. 16.03: The Varieties of Photographic Documentary
  95. 16.04: Design and Architecture in the 1930s- Corporate Patronage and Individual Genius
  96. 16.05: Conclusion
  97. 17: Cold War and the Age of the Atom- Consensus and Anxiety 1945-1960
  98. 17.01: The Crisis of the Subject- From Narrative to Myth and Symbol in the 1940s
  99. 17.02: The Triumph of Abstract Expressionism and Beyond
  100. 17.03: Photography- From Photojournalism to the Eccentric Eye
  101. 17.04: Post-war Design and the Domestication of Modernism
  102. 17.05: Conclusion
  103. 05: Art Revolution and The New Nation 1776-1828
  104. 18: Art into Life 1960-1980
  105. 18.01: The Space and Objects of Everyday Life- Performance Pop and Minimalism
  106. 18.02: The Figure in Crisis
  107. 18.03: American Spaces Revisited
  108. 18.04: Conclusion
  109. 19: American Art in Flux 1980-Present
  110. 19.01: Decenterings- The 1980s
  111. 19.02: The New Arts of Memory
  112. 19.03: Contemporary American Art and Globalization
  113. 19.04: Conclusion