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National Gallery of Art (Studies in the History of Art 29), 1991. Hard cover, 172 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Very light spotting to top edge of text block and end papers. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light overall scuffing and fading. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes 120 black and white illustrations and 4 color plates [From back cover] This volume focuses on national identity as a determining factor in the creation of visual arts. The seven essays range widely, with partical emphasis on seventeenth-century Italy, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western Europe, and twentieth-century America. Includes 120 b&w illustrations and 4 color plates. Contents include: Preface by Henry A. Millon; Introduction by Richard A. Etlin; National Expression in Italian Sixteenth-Century Art: Problems of the Past and Present by Charles Dempsey; Nationalism in British Eighteenth-Century Painting: Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West by Renate Prochno; Shaping the National Image: The Cult of Statues to Great Men in the Third Republic by June Hargrove; Le Corbusier, Nationalism, and the Decorative Arts in France, 1900-1918 by Nancy J. Troy; Nationalism in Modem Italian Architecture, 1900-1940 by Richard A. Etlin; National Romanticism in Modem German Architecture by Barbara Miller Lane; Identity, Modernism, and the American Artist after World War I: Gerald Murphy and Americanisms by Wanda M. Corn.