Art Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter 1984). American Art

New York: College Art Association of America, 1984. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Prown, Art history vs. the history of art. Roger Stein, Thomas Smith's self-portrait: image/text as artifact by Roger Stein. Bryan Wolf, All the world's a code: art and ideology in nineteenth-century American painting. Elizabeth Johns, Histories of American art: the changing quest. Norma Lifton, Representing history: from public event to private meaning. Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner's late landscapes: "The musical color of fateful experience." Judith Zilczer, Synaesthesia and popular culture: Arthur Dove, George Gershwin, and the Rhapsody in Blue. Johce M. Szabo, Howling Wolf: a plains artist in transition. Katherine Manthorne, The quest for a tropical paradise: palm tree as fact and symbol in Latin American landscape imagery, 1850-1875. Museum news, books in review, books and catalogues received, errata. ; 11.0" tall; 96 pages.