How long does it take to read Framing America?
Frances K. Pohl
Framing America by Frances K. Pohl takes about 11 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 600 pages, about 165,000 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Framing America's consistent presentation of the resonance between art and history offers a coherent sense of the evolution of a new, generously defined conception of American art. For more than a generation, critics and scholars have been revising and expanding the customary definition of American art. A tradition once assumed to be mainly European and oriented toward painting and sculpture has been enriched by the inclusion of other media such as ceramics, needlework, and illustration, and the work of previously marginalized groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Now, in a brilliant combination of original scholarship and synthesis, Frances Pohl's Framing America provides the first comprehensive survey of this new, enlarged vision of American art. Here are the many strands of North America's history and visual culture: the first contacts of the Spanish with the Aztecs and other Native Americans; the post-Revolutionary definition of nationhood; the visionary feeling for landscape and nature; the images of social and military conflict of the nineteenth century; and the tempering of the twentieth century's heady plunge into modernism by the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the culture wars. Pohl's account is an adroitly inclusive fusion of many themes. As our appreciation of the rich cultural diversity of American life has grown, our sense of American art. Abstract:
Subjects: American Art, Art and society, Art et société, Bildband, Sociale aspecten, Soziale Situation
