The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000

by Lisa Phillips

Book Overview

In this expansive volume Lisa Phillips explains the excitement and inventiveness of American artists in the context of the varied and sometimes turbulent social environment as well as the expanding economy of postwar America. Essays by experts in related fields illuminate parallel and diverse developments in architecture, dance, music, literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, and design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393048152
• ISBN13: 9780393048155
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.8" x 11.3"