Art and life in America - Larkin, Oliver W. (New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966)
Book One: The Colonial Arts c.1600-c.1790: Part I: Saints and Traders: Introduction - A sensible people - The serviceable carpenter - The limner -- Part II: Margin for Culture: Introduction - Niceties and curiosities - Tidewater classicism - Likeness in a proper manner -- Part III: The Revolutionary Generation: Introduction - The emergence of the Yankee - Fair fraud and vulgar imitation - Sons of liberty -- Book Two: Self-Conscious Republic c.1790-c.1830: Part I: The Jeffersonian Promise: Introduction - Christians, Mohawks, Democrats - The Adamesques - From Goose Creek to Tiber - Sculpture's wooden age -- Part II: Republican Painting: Introduction - Museums, academies, and panoramas - Portraits - The dying Hercules - The rise of landscape -- Book Three: Democratic Vistas c.1830-c.1870: Part I: Jacksonian Ferment: Introduction - Shapes of democracy - Templed hills - A few crockets and finials - The white marmorean flock -- Part II: At the Feet of the Familiar: Introduction - Paint for the many - Westward the course of landscape - Art for the people - Art by the people -- Book Four: Between Two Panics c.1870-c.1900: Part I: A Chromo Civilization: Introduction - The Spirit of '76 - False front - A mighty hankering -- Part II: Critics, Rebels, and Prophets: Introduction - The American conscience - Palpable truth - Architects with an idea -- Part III: Cosmopolitans: Introduction - The Renaissance complex - The more smiling aspects - The white city -- Book Five: Progressivism, Culture, and War c.1900-c.1930: Part I: The Voice of the City: Introduction - The great stock-taking - Mop, pail, and ashcan - The book and the edifice -- Part Ii: Art's Coming of Age: Introduction - Art and Mr. Podsnap - Ructions in the hennery - Explosion in the armory -- Part III: Decade of Disillusion: Introduction - A race of Hamlets - Distortion domesticated - Reason in bronze and concrete -- Book Six: New Horizons c.1930-1960: Part I: The Age of Roosevelt: In the shadow of war and fascism - American self-portrait - Common cause - Three-dimensional consciences - State of high concentration -- Part II: Point of Promise and of Danger: Introduction - Cold War climate - Architecture of logic and imagination - Painting and sculpture at midcentury.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-525) and index.
Keywords: Art -- United States -- History