Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300122896 ISBN 13: 9780300122893

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The American experience from its colonial beginnings to the modern age has captured the imagination of all Americans, including its artists. This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American paintings, decorative arts, prints, and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and creates a vivid portrait of a young country defining itself culturally, politically, and geographically.

 

Distinguished scholars shed new light on American history by examining some of the most familiar and revered objects in American art paintings by Trumbull, Peale, Copley, Eakins, Church, and Homer; silver by Revere and Tiffany; furniture by Roux and Connelly; and photographs by Muybridge, among others. The authors discuss how issues of cultural heritage, patriotism, politics, and exploration shaped America’s art as well as its attitudes and traditions.

 

 

 

About this title

About the Author:

Helen A. Cooper is the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery. David McCullough, American historian and bestselling author, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. 

Review:

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine (Choice 2010-01-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300122896
• ISBN 13: 9780300122893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Cooper Helen A.