Marianne Doezema

Reading American Art Marianne Doezema

Marc Notes: Collection of 20 outstanding works of recent scholarship in the history of US visual arts, colonial times to 1945; Cloth at $45.00Publisher Marketing: This anthology brings together twenty works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays - all written within the past two decades - reflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subject - from colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York - and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Publisher Marketing: This anthology brings together 20 works of scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays - all written within the last two decades - reflect the interdisciplinary character of art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjects - from colonial portraits to 19th-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York - and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Contributor Bio:  Doezema, Marianne Doezema is Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Contributor Bio:  Milroy, Elizabeth Milroy associate professor of art at Wesleyan University