Barbara Novak: 3 books
Voyages of the Self
Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle...
Nature and Culture
American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of...
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art...