American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience

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American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience / Barbara Novak.

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Prolegomena to the nineteenth century: Copley and the American tradition -- Washington Allston: an American romantic tradition -- Thomas Cole: the dilemma of the real and the ideal -- Asher B. Durand: Hudson River School solutions -- Luminism: an alternative tradition -- Fitz Hugh Lane: a paradigm of luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade: haystacks and light -- William Sidney Mount: monumental genre -- George Caleb Bingham: Missouri classicism -- Winslow Homer: concept and percept -- Thomas Eakins: science and sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder: even with a thought -- William Harnett: every object rightly seen -- The painterly mode in America -- Epilogue: the twentieth century -- Brief biographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists.