Volume 22, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1976
Américainerie
By J.H. Elliott
The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time
by Hugh Honour
Pantheon, 299 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The European Vision of America
by Hugh Honour
The Cleveland Museum of Art (distributed by Kent State University Press), 388 pp., $17.50
The European Vision of America 1976
The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 7, 1975-February 14,
To see ourselves' as others see us can be a disconcerting experience, but at the age of two hundred it should be possible to absorb the shock. If the Bicentennial celebrations were to include nothing else than the remarkable exhibition of 'The European Vision of America,' which opened on December 7 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, they would still have amply justified themselves. The exhibition is a triumph for the organizers, the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Art and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris; and it is a triumph, too, for the guest curator, Mr. Hugh Honour, whose patient researches brought the exhibition into being, and whose elegant disquisitions on its contents and its theme will confer upon it life after death.
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