Marble Halls Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age by WayneCraven Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Delaware Press ISBN-13: 978-0-692-88421-8, ISBN: 0-692-88421-1
"Marble Halls is about the great civic buildings that were designed in the style of Beaux-Arts classicism during the Gilded Age (1865–1918) and about the City Beautiful movement that was intended to improve the setting for the buildings and the urban environment for the people. The Industrial Revolution, which arrived belatedly in the United States, provided the wealth required for grand architecture, and the classical Beaux-style was im ..."
American Art(Updated) History and Culture, Revised First Edition by WayneCraven Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill Education ISBN-13: 978-0-07-282329-5, ISBN: 0-07-282329-1
""American Art" set the standard for American art survey courses for the last decade by providing a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way, Craven charts the gr ..."
American Art(1st Edition) History And Culture by WayneCraven Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1993 by Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ISBN-13: 978-0-697-16763-7, ISBN: 0-697-16763-1
"American Art: History and Culture is a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting ..."
American Art(1st Edition) History and Culture by Professor WayneCraven Hardcover, 687 Pages, Published 1994 by Harry N Abrams Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-1942-6, ISBN: 0-8109-1942-7
"Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era. He covers: * Painting * Sculpture * Decorative arts * Folk Art * Architecture * Photography Highlighted by more than 750 magnificen ..."
Stanford White Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities by WayneCraven Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13344-9, ISBN: 0-231-13344-8
"The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively studied and written about, no book has fully examined the other aspect of his career, which claimed at least half of his time and cr ..."
American Art(1st Edition) History and Culture by WayneCraven Hardcover, 688 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill Professional ISBN-13: 978-0-07-141524-8, ISBN: 0-07-141524-6
"Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era. He covers: * Painting * Sculpture * Decorative arts * Folk Art * Architecture * Photography Highlighted by more than 750 ..."
"In this new and provocative study, the renowned art scholar Wayne Craven examines early American portraiture not just in terms of the genius of particular artists, but as a complex expression of society and the individual. Historians of American art have long identified the evolution of styles in early portraits; Professor Craven asks why those styles developed as they did, looking beyond the formal boundaries of traditional art history ..."
Sculpture in America(Updated) by WayneCraven Hardcover, 782 Pages, Published 1984 by Cornwall Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8453-4776-8, ISBN: 0-8453-4776-4
"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"
Sculpture in America(1st Edition) From the Colonial Period to the Present by WayneCraven Hardcover, 722 Pages, Published 1968 by Crowell ISBN-13: 978-0-690-72240-6, ISBN: 0-690-72240-0
"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"
"An illustrated, historical and critical survey of sculpture in America, beginning with a discussion of the sculpture of the aboriginal inhabitants and augmented by brief biographies of the sculptors noted"
Gilded Mansions(1st Edition) Grand Architecture and High Society by WayneCraven Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06754-5, ISBN: 0-393-06754-8
"A lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age (1865–1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaun ..."
Sculpture in America (American Art Journal/Kennedy Galleries Book) by WayneCraven Hardcover, 782 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Delaware Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87413-225-0, ISBN: 0-87413-225-8
"An illustrated story of how the art form developed in America from the seventeenth-century colonial artisans to the newest abstract forms"
"Between 1830 and his death in 1836, New York merchant Luman Reed assembled one of the first significant collections of American art, which he displayed in a specially designed gallery in his townhouse on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan. Reed's entire collection was purchased after his death by an association of Reed's friends in 1844, when it became the nucleus of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts. In 1858, it was given to the N ..."
"Go on an adventure through unheard of places in time and existence. Here in these remote areas, thriving cities, and secret worlds, a strange technological revolution reigns. Inside these pages inventors, dreamers, and revolutionist rule in worlds of steam driven machines, cog powered humanoids, clockwork miracles, and paranormal magic. Dressed in corsets, top hats, and cog lined finery the heroes and heroines face down immense obstacle ..."
Stanford White Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities by WayneCraven by WayneCraven 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-50824-7, ISBN: 0-231-50824-7
"New York: Braziller, 1971. Schiaparelli, Attilio. La Casa Fiorentina e i suoi arredi
nei secoli XIV e XV. Florence: Sansoni, 1908. Schottmüller, Frieda. Furniture and
Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Brentano, 1921.
Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880–1960, Eighty Years of Professional
Collecting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. Sheldon, George William,
ed. Artistic Houses: Being a Series of ..."
E-Study Guide for American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition by WayneCraven, ISBN 9780072823295 by Cti Reviews, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, WayneCraven Digital, 132 Pages, Published 2012 by Academic Internet Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-61905-926-9, ISBN: 1-61905-926-6
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