Masterworks of American art

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The accompanying guidebooks contain transcripts of the lectures, timelines, glossaries, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
"Course no. 7158."
Lecture 1. Art in the New World -- Lecture 2. 18th-century colonial art -- Lecture 3. The genius of Copley and C.W. Peale -- Lecture 4. A revolution in art -- Lecture 5. Portraiture in Federal America -- Lecture 6. Early historical and landscape painting -- Lecture 7. The 1820s : art in the era of good feelings -- Lecture 8. Thomas Cole and the American landscape -- Lecture 9. Thomas Cole: the late years -- Lecture 10. Other views, other visions -- Lecture 11. American genre painting -- Lecture 12. Native Americans and westward expansion -- Lecture 13. The Civil War in art -- Lecture 14. The glow of peace -- Lecture 15. Art: the mirror of social change -- Lecture 16. 1876-1893: the civic revival of the nation -- Lecture 17. 1885-1900: contrasts of dark and light -- Lecture 18. Americans abroad: expatriate painters -- Lecture 19. Thomas Eakins: innovation and rejection -- Lecture 20. Thomas Eakins: success and scandal -- Lecture 21. The last years: "And who is Eakins?" -- Lecture 22. Winslow Homer in England and New England -- Lecture 23. Winslow Homer: the last years -- Lecture 24. Ourselves and our posterity.
Taught by Professor William Kloss, the Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution.
This course features over 400 visual elements, including images of the masterpieces discussed and portraits of American artists in 24 lectures (30 minutes each) by noted scholar and art historian, William Kloss.
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