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What is First Flowers of Our Wilderness about?

xxi, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm Shows the relationships between life in America and the long tradition of American painting A Life-in-America prize book Includes bibliographical references and index "This book, complete in itself, is the first of a series in which I hope to show the relationships between life in America and the long tradition of American painting."--page ix Lambs in a large place -- Dragons in the way -- Dutch realists and the patroon painters -- Aristocracy versus art -- A prophet enters the wilderness -- The lyrical mariner, Robert Feke -- Painting in all its branches -- Triumphs of naïveté -- First steps of a genius: John Singleton Copley -- Alleghenies of the intellect -- The early American tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography of general sources -- Source references -- Catalogue of illustrations -- Index

Author

James Thomas Flexner

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin

Published

1947

Language

EN

Subjects

Art, History, Arts