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From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.

Art, American. --- Art, American --- 18th century american art history. --- 19th century american art history. --- african american art. --- american art. --- art. --- artists. --- benjamin west. --- chester harding. --- cotton mather. --- historical. --- institutional history. --- john adams. --- john durand. --- john singleton copley. --- john smibert. --- john valentine haidt. --- native american artists. --- painters. --- paintings. --- peter pelham. --- popular culture. --- puritanism. --- quakers. --- regional artists. --- sculptors. --- stylistic manifestos. --- theory of painting. --- thomas smith. --- vernacular imagery. --- visual art. --- women artists. --- works of art.