[This book is] for American art survey courses. [It] provides a thorough ... chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative

This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to

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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today.