American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art

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Edited by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual language into an indigenous and populist New World syntax. The twelve essays in this volume explore the development of a frontier mythology, a democratic style depicting common people and objects, and an American artistic…