{"product_id":"reading-american-art-9780300073485","title":"Reading American Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essaysall written within the past two decadesreflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjectsfrom colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New Yorkand invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture.Employing many interpretive methodologies  including iconology  social history  structuralism  psychobiography  and feminist theory  the contributors to this volume combine close analysis of specific art objects or groups of objects with discussion of how these works of art operated within their cultural contexts. The authors consider the works of such artists as John Singleton Copley  Charles Willson Peale  Winslow Homer  Thomas Eakins  Georgia OKeeffe  and Jackson Pollock as they assess how paintings  sculpture  prints  drawings  and photographs have carried meaning within American society. And they investigate how the conceptualization  production  and presentation of works of art both inform and are informed by prevailing attitudes toward the role of the arts and the artist in American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44933971935285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300073488","price":336.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300073485.jpg?v=1787330127","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/reading-american-art-9780300073485","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}