Product Description: This volume is an exciting, eclectic collection of essays in honor of Kermit S. Champa, a leading scholar of impressionism and critic of twentieth-century art. The lead essay by David Carrier is followed by others from several generations of scholars and museum curators trained by Professor Champa...read more

Product Description: From Acknowledgments: "As the foremost practitioner of American genre painting, William Sidney Mount is an artist who had a profound impact on nineteenth-century American art and culture, and we are delighted to be presenting this first major examination of his work...read more

Product Description: Since 1970 increasing percentages of Black students have enrolled in all types of private schools in diverse, though predominantly urban, regions of the nation. Since more than 90 percent of all Black students receive instruction in public schools, it is perhaps not surprising that researchers have paid scant attention to the educational status of the minority who have attended independently funded schools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)