Author: William C. Agee & Susan C. Faxon.

Publisher/Date: Yale Univ Press, 2006 ISBN: 9780300115239

Format/Condition: Large hardcover w/ dust jacket in fine condition. 136 pages.

Description: From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art progressed from provincial to international, from figurative depictions of particular subjects to abstract interpretations of universal ideals—a difficult transition, explained here by art historian Willam Agee and curator Susan Faxon with 78 color reproductions of representative works. The pageant begins with the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and the Hudson River School painters, embodying the nationalism of mid-19th-century America, followed by works from Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeil Whistler. In the 20th century, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and Josef Albers pursue modernist and increasingly abstract images, until artists like Jackson Pollock abandoned form altogether with Abstract Expressionism.