© Columbia University Press
The Invention of Painting in America
Paper, 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates
ISBN: 978-0-231-13297-8
$27.00
/ £18.50
November, 2004
Cloth, 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates
ISBN: 978-0-231-13296-1
$85.00
/ £58.50
"Within the modest confines of this trim and attractive volume...Columbia art historian Rosand...tells the big story of how American painting grew and struggled from colonial obscurity to its stunning mid-20th-century coming-of-age." — Publishers Weekly
"Readers will be reinspired, and their souls and minds reinvented...Highly recommended." — Choice
"Indispensable...Rosand provides a unifying, and uniquely satisfying, view of painting in America." — Margaret Moorman, Columbia Magazine
"An academic treatise that will stimulate artists and fellow scholars." — Stephen May, American Arts Quarterly
"I can think of no other work that treats the painter as protagonist in the national drama in the same way, certainly not with the same scope, ease, and breadth. Rosand demonstrates a clear command of the material as he traces the self-realization of the painter from the colonial period to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s." — Howard Risatti, Virginia Commonwealth University
"With eloquence and economy, Rosand shows how the American art tradition—at once realist and abstract—answered the questions that guided it: What is painting? What is an artist? This is rigorous scholarship, yet Rosand writes from the heart. Like an artist, he puts faith in painting and the individualist society it shapes." — Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin