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American Encounters
Angela L. Miller
Janet Catherine Berlo
Bryan Jay Wolf
Jennifer L. Roberts
其他書名
Art, History, and Cultural Identity
出版
Pearson Education, Incorporated
, 2008
主題
Art / History / General
Art / American / General
History / United States / General
ISBN
0136140483
9780136140481
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lEFCAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid exchanges between high art and vernacular expression. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the influences, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage. There was a readily perceived need for an up-to-date survey of American art that addressed the thematic, cultural, and historical concerns of the field in the 21st century. American Encounters offers a new narrative of American art organized around the theme of cross-cultural exchanges. It locates America at the cross-roads of cultural encounters between Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World, for over five centuries. The authors do not treat traditions separately, rather they explore how peoples and cultures encounter and influence each other and then evolve based on an exchange of ideas, materials etc.