7 CITYSCAPES : Contexts for Living poems Langston Hughes , “ Pennsylvania Station ” Carl Sandburg , “ Prayers of Steel , ” “ Chicago ” Gwendolyn Brooks , “ The Boy Died in My Alley ” Robert Lowell , “ The Mouth of the Hudson ” Olga ...
American Visions offers a rich sampling of literature for writing classes with a multicultural perspective, exploring the historical context and contemporary relevance of major themes that have shaped our consciousness as a nation.
American Visions: The Paintings of Sandy Walker
This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Beginning where American art itself began - five centuries ago, with the native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest - this book travels through to the late 1990s.
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the...
With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past.
Robert Hughes has called it "a love letter to America." This superb volume, which encompasses and enlarges upon the series, is an incomparably entertaining and insightful contemplation of its splendid subject.
American Visions
American Visions
The first section, "The critical discourse in Latin America," deals with varied perspectives with the existence of a uniquely American vision. The next section, "Mapping new territories," addresses the question,...
This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.