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1. “Curious Historical Artistic Data”: Art History and Western American Art
Nancy K. Anderson
Description: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
In a recent essay Wanda Corn noted that before achieving respectability late in the twentieth century, American art had long suffered as “the impoverished, unwanted stepchild of art history.” Wanda M. Corn, “Coming of Age: Historical...
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Nancy K. Anderson
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.1-35
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15731
Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artAmerica--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksReality in artArt and historyArt criticism--History

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