A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas

(MFA Publications) By viewing the art of the Americas through its intersections with the world at large, A New World Imagined sheds a fresh outlook on the subject. The book introduces the ways in which American art has been shaped by its encounters with cultures around the globe, and by its own past. Davis is the chairman of the department of art in the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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