Amazon.com has a feature that allows people on the Web to
read text inside books. To use this feature, search in "books,"
entering title of a book or other keywords. When a book is retrieved it
may have the "Search Inside" feature allowing the reader to read
sample pages of the book selected, which may include color images of the
front cover, front flap, table of contents, excerpt such as the introduction
chapter, alphabetical index, back flap and back cover. Also, some books
have a word search feature, which enables registered individuals to search
inside the books and pull up individual pages containing the selected words.
An Amazon.com search within "books"
conducted March 24, 2008 located 18,296 pages with the search phrase "American
Art." Many of the books offer a "Search Inside" feature.
The following books are examples:
- African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton (search inside)
- African American Art and Artists, Revised and Expanded Edition by Samella
Lewis (search inside)
- American Art: A Cultural History by David Bjelajac
- American Art: History and Culture by Wayne Craven (includes excerpt)
- American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times
to World War I by Art Institute of Chicago
- American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950, The by Barbara Haskell
- American Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 3: John
Singer Sargent by Stephanie L. Herdrich, H. Barbara Weinberg, Marjorie
Shelley
- American Impressionism, 2nd Edition by William H. Gerdts (includes
excerpt)
- American Visions : The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes
(includes excerpt)
- An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Fine and Decorative
Arts by Tom Armstrong (search inside)
- Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco by Birgitta Hjalmarson
(search inside)
- Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones (search inside)
- California Impressionism by William H. Gerdts
- California Impressionists by Susan Landauer (includes excerpt)
- Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting by John F. Carlson (includes
excerpt)
- Celebrity Caricature in America by Wendy Wick Reaves
- Collecting African American Art : Works on Paper and Canvas by Halima
Taha (includes excerpt)
- Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art
Museum (Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Series) by Tom
Patterson
- Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection
at the Historic New Orleans Collection by William H. Gerdts (includes excerpt)
- Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore, The by
Susan G. Larkin
- Flash of the Spirit : African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
by Robert Farris Thompson (includes excerpt)
- Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists (American Art), The
by Bert D. Yaege
- Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts (includes excerpt)
- Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945
by Patricia Trenton (search inside)
- Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
by Amy Pastan
- Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum by William
A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Christopher B. Crosman, Pamela J.
Belanger ,William H. Gerdts, Fronia W. Simpson
- Minnesota Impressionists by Rena Neumann Coen ,William H. Gerdts
- Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories
by W. Jackson Rushing (search inside)
- Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art) by Janet Catherine
Berlo (search inside)
- Nineteenth-Century American Art by Barbara S. Groseclose (search inside)
- Rave Reviews : American Art and its Critics (1826 - 1925) by David
B. Dearinge
- Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution by Kenneth R. Trapp (includes
excerpt)
- Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South: The
Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf by Paul Arnett (search inside)
- Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art,
The by Anna Lee Walters (search inside)
- Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America by Ronald G Pisano
(includes excerpt)
- Traditional African American Arts and Activities by Sonya Kimble-Ellis
(search inside)
- Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, The by Andrea D.
Barnwell
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Project. Public domain books are
available on an open access basis. Copyrighted material is treated in one
of three ways. Google negotiates with cooperating publishers through its
Google
Books Partner Program for "Limited
Preview" of entire pages or sections within books by readers. For scanned
books without copyright permissions, "snippets" are available.
For remaining books basic information is provided without ability to search
within the book. The snippets inform readers about the relevance of the
book to their subject of inquiry.
Google explains its service saying:
- For books that enter Book Search through
the Library Project, what you see depends on the book's copyright status.
We respect copyright law and the tremendous creative effort authors put
into their work. If the book is in the public domain and therefore out
of copyright, you can page through the entire book and even download it
and read it offline. But if the book is under copyright, and the publisher
or author is not part of the Partner Program, we only show basic information
about the book, similar to a card catalog, and, in some cases, a few snippets
-- sentences of your search terms in context. The aim of Google Book Search
is to help you discover books and learn where to buy or borrow them, not
read them online from start to finish. It's like going to a bookstore and
browsing - with a Google twist.
A Google
Book Search conducted March 24,
2008 located 82,000 pages from books with the words "American art"
and 7,760 pages from books with the phase "American art." Many
offer either "Limited Preview" or "snippet" features.
Many books with the Full View or Limited
Preview feature are listed in TFAO's catalogue American Representational Art with links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art,
and others are listed in Resource
Library. For example, please
see Native American Art.
Reference books include:
- Everything written or co-authored by William
H. Gerdts, one of America's foremost art historians. Amazon.com
has an extensive list of his survey books including:
- A Century of American still-life painting, 1813-1913
- All Things Bright and Beautiful, California Impressionist Paintings
from the Irvine Museum
- American Art at the Flint Institute of Arts
- American Impressionism, 2nd Edition
- American Impressionism: Masterworks from public and private collections
in the United States exhibition catalogue
- A Painter's Paradise: Artists and the California Landscape: Essays
- Art Across America: The East and the Mid-Atlantic
- Art Across America: The Plains States and the West
- Art Across America: The South and the Midwest
- Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting
- California Impressionism
- California Light 1900-1930
- Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection
at the Historic New Orleans Collection
- Golden Age of American Impressionism, The
- Grand Illusions: History Painting in America (Anne Burnett Tandy
Lectures in American Civilization, No 8)
- Great American Nude: A history in art (American art & artists),
The
- Impressionist New York
- In Natures Ways American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth
Century
- Masters of Light: Plein-Air Painting in California 1890-1930
- Masterworks of American Impressionism
- Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America
- Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture,
The
- Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterworks of American Still-Life
Painting
- Pennsylvania Impressionism
- Revealed masters: 19th century American art [catalogue of] an exhibition
organized by American Federation of Arts, New York
More books:
- Brigham, David R, American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise,
ISBN: 0764903594
- Brown, Milton W. American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
- Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison,
Conn.: Sound View Press, 1999.
- Groce, George C., and David H. Wallace, eds. The New-York Historical
Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 15641860. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1957.
- Havlice, Patrice Pate, ed. Index to Artistic Biography. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981-.
- Igoe, Lynn Moody, and James Igoe. 250 Years of Afro-American Art:
An Annotated Bibliography. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1991.
- Optiz, Glenn B., ed. Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century
to the Present. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Apollo Book, 1984.
- Optiz, Glenn B., ed. Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters,
Sculptors, and Engravers. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Apollo Book, 1983.
- Prown, Jules David. American Painting from its Beginnings to the
Armory Show. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
- Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco, by Birgitta
Hjalmarson, with a forward by William H. Gerdts, 288 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
34 black and white photographs, 46 color photographs, ISBN 1-890449-01-6
- Crosscurrents in American Impressionism at the Turn of the Century
General Editor: William U. Eiland Essays by: Janice Simon; Nancy Mathews;
Sarah Burns; Kathleen Pyne; Charles C. Eldredge 119 p.; Illustrated; Essays:
5; Published: 1996; ISBN: 0-915977-16-8
- Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon by Donald J.
Haggarty. 204 color and 69 b&w illustrations, 296pp. ISBN 0-87905-826-9
- Painted Light: California Impressionist Paintings, California
State University, Dominguez Hills, 31 color and 9 b&w illustrations,
54pp. ISBN 0-9662490-1-1
- Art of the Gold Rush, by Driesbach, Janice T., Harvey L. Jones,
and Katherine Church Holland, ISBN 0-520-21431-5
- California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Nancy
Moure, ISBN 0-9614622-5-6 soft cover
- Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings General
Editor: Donald D. Keyes, Essays by: Henry Adams; Douglas Dreishpoon 84
p.; Illustrated (includes 22 color plates); Essays: 2; Published: 1998;
ISBN 0-915977-28-1
- An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, Phil
Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, University of Texas Press, 1998,
448 pages, ISBN: 0292790635.
- For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection
of American Still Life, a 104 page catalog accompanying the Mead Art
Museum exhibition, Amherst College; ISBN: 091433719X
- Los Angeles Painters of the 1920s, by Nancy Moure with an introduction
by Arthur Miller. ISBN: 0915478293
- The American Scene and the South: Paintings and Works on Paper,
1930-1946 General Editor: Patricia Phagan Essays by: Matthew Baigell;
Patricia Phagan; William U. Eiland; Richard Cox; Martha R. Severens; Leslie
King-Hammond 263 p.; Illustrated (includes 46 color plates); Essays: 10;
Published: 1996; ISBN: 0-915977-24-9
- Collecting the West : The C.R. Smith Collection of Western American
Art, by Richard H. Saunders (Editor) ISBN: 0292711123
- 1998 Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions (10th Ed), by
Susan S. Rappaport (Editor), Jennifer A. Smith (Editor), Susan Coll (Editor)
ISBN: 0810963450
- American Impressionism : Paintings of Promise, by David R. Brigham,
ISBN: 0764903594
- Visions of Home : American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure
and Country Comfort, by Lisa N. Peters, Jack Becker, Peter M. Lukehart,
Trout Gallery, ISBN: 0874519705
- Independent Spirits : Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945
by Patricia
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