Displaying 1 of 1 2008 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Masterworks of American art / the Teaching Company ; speaker Professor William Kloss. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008] ©2008 Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 162 pages ; 19 cm). NTSC Summary: Series of 24 lectures (each approximately 30 min. long) surveying the history of American art from its colonial origins until just before World War I. Series: Great courses. Fine arts & music. Visual arts Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts. Subjects: Art, American. Genre: Lectures. Educational films. Instructional films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Kloss, William, teacher. Teaching Company, production company, publisher. Notes: "Course number 7158"--Disc surface. Originally produced in 2008. Taught by Professor William Kloss, the Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution. DVD, NTSC. Contents: 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. ISBN: 9781598034998 1598034995 1598035002 9781598035001 Publisher Number: 7158 Other Number: 298460522 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 231127 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: GREAT DVD 759.13 Masterwo Place Hold Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
