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Forging America: New Lands and High Culture
Forging America New Lands and High Culture Author:David P. DeVenney Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation, this book shows how the various "new" portions of the country--the Northeastern wilderness, the West, and later the South and Midwest--were assimilated into the national and intellectual consciousness of the young nation. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which the ar... more »ts helped achieve this assimilation, primarily through music and painting, but also through literature and architecture. The search for "American-ness" in the arts, for what it meant to be an American painter, composer, or writer, occupied artists for the entire 19th century and for the first part of the 20th.« less