Framing America – A Social History of American Art

Traditional interpretations of the history of American art have taken European fine art as their starting point. More recent scholarship has looked at the work of previously marginalised groups, such as Native Americans, African Americans and Latinos, and also examined art in media such as ceramics and needlework, previously regarded as “domestic” or “folk” art.

This new and expansive survey of American art aims to take this much enlarged and wider vision of American art as its central theme. Included are examples of folk art, furniture and architecture, taken alongside paintings, drawings and sculpture. Arrangement is both chronological and thematic...