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Icons of 20th-Century American Art
Yale University Press
November 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 0300109970
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to
respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in
history? This provocative question is explored in this
engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad,
defining themes, embodied in the work of such pivotal
artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert
Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, the authors look at how art
provided a means for re-imagining America, visualizing what
it had become, and where it might go in a century of
turbulent change. Richly illustrated with 400 color images, Imagining America
is organized around three main themes: nature and the ways
diverse artists responded to the transformation of the
landscape from pastoral to industrial; how artists as
different as Thomas Eakins and Jackson Pollock demonstrated
the perpetual inclination to reinvent both personal and
national identity; and the ways that key artists like
Stuart Davis, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat taught
us to understand the media and popular culture on a deeper
level. The authors also provide a context of social history
and parallel developments in American music and film. With an innovative design, a fabulous selection of iconic
images, and an engaging juxtaposition of visual themes,
Imagining America presents American art and artists in a
completely new light.
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