Annotation. Sixteen essays examine aspects of American art that owe a debt to Italy and Italian artists. A central theme is the tension between perceptions of I
The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860, based on papers presented at a joint Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana/Fordham U. symposium held in 1987, w
First published in 1999. The many available scholarly works on Italian-Americans are perhaps of little practical help to the undergraduate or high school studen