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America, the New World in 19th-century painting, edited by Stephan Koja ; with contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. ... [et al.]

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edited by Stephan Koja ; with contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. ... [et al.]

the New World in 19th-century painting

Making sense of America / Neil Harris -- Mapping a national identity : American painting before the Civil War / Barbara Gallati -- Democratic illusionism / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- "Claiming our property wherever we find it" : American art after 1865 / Erica E. Hirshler -- The colonial period and early republic -- Opening up the land -- The wilderness as a source of American identity -- The myth of the west -- The Civil War and the Brown Decades -- Man and nature in the work of Winslow Homer -- The fascination of the empirical -- Materiality and illusion -- On the inner unity of the world -- Modern life -- The cosmopolitans -- In the gorges of the city -- Nineteenth-century collections of American paintings / Franklin Kelly -- Constructing a past : nineteenth-century histories of American art / Linda S. Ferber -- "A big Anglo-Saxon total" : American and British painting, 1670-1890 / Marc Simpson -- "When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris" : the training of American painters in France and the influence of French art on American painting / H. Barbara Weinberg -- Between influence and independence : the relationship of American and German painters in the nineteenth century / Martina Sitt -- Italy : images and ideas / Charles C. Eldredge -- "An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" : reflections on American art and photography / Maria Antonella Pelizzari