"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects."--"Journal of the Ear

Art for art's sake. Art created in pursuit of personal expression. In Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, Albert Boime rejects these popular modern notions and

This title introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the American Revolution. In 33 individual essays, the handbook provides readers wit

The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered for the first time in Sally Webster's fascinating study of public monuments and the construction

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