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Author Honour, Hugh, author.

Title The new golden land : European images of America from the discoveries to the present time / by Hugh Honour.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [1975]
©1975

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  704.94997 H759n 1975    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First edition.
Description 299 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 28 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents First impressions -- From the new golden land -- True men -- Land of allegory -- Savage people of America -- Land of liberty -- Exotic south -- Prejudged land -- Good Indians -- Land of the future.
Summary This book examines European artwork of America from the 15th to 20th centuries. An extensive and eclectic selection of artists' works appear here, including works by Jan Mostaert, Lodovico Buti, Carpaccio, Christoph Weiditz, John White, Albert Eckhout, Bonaventura Peeters, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan van Kessel, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Toile de Jouy, James Barry, Henri Rousseau, Ferdinand Bellermann, Frederick Catherwood, Frank Buchser, Edgar Degas, Francisco Goya, Karl Bodmer, Rosa Bonheur, Piet Mondrian, and David Hockney.
Subject United States -- In art.
Art, European.
Art, European. (OCoLC)fst00816244
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Art. (OCoLC)fst01423702
Art.
ISBN 0394497732
9780394497730
0394730844 (pbk.)
9780394730844 (pbk.)

 
    
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