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David M. Lubin on the Origins of American Painting

THE INVENTION OF PAINTING IN AMERICA BY DAVID ROSAND NEW YORK: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. 228 PAGES. $30.

CHARLES WILLSON PEALE: ART AND SELFHOOD IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC BY DAVID C. WARD BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. 236 PAGES. $50.

Symbolically, the line dividing the new art history from the old appeared in 1981, with Fredric Jameson's exhortation in The Political Unconscious: "Always historicize!" Since then, scholars of American art, whatever their ideological stripe, have tended to hew to this core tenet and ...

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