American Art

American art may refer to:

  • Visual art of the United States, the history of painting and visual art in the United States
  • Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas
  • American Art (album), a 2007 indie rock album
  • American Art (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or art:

    “The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)