The Fine Arts in America
The Fine Arts in America
University of Chicago Press | 1979 | ISBN: 0226791505 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Today the United States is one of the world's great centers for the fine arts. Yet only a century and a half ago a snide English critic could indict this country by the mere question, "Who looks at an American picture or statue?" The rise of American civilization has seen the nation transformed from a colony, a remote and insecure outpost of European cultures, into a nursery and a refuge of artists, an exporter of works of art, a dynamic influence on the artists of the world, and a refresher of the vision of art lovers.