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intensely, objective physical orientation to objects and art and a sense for amore timeless, transcendent spirituality or conceptuality? We have seen thisodd kind of fusion appearing in a variety of forms throughout the historyof American art from Luminism to Minimalism. This inner-outer disjunctionmight also help to explain the recurring American literary and visualimagery of the lone ego defiantly confronting the vast cosmic and earthlyphysical expanses of the continent. A key question for the future of Americais whether or not it will now succeed in learning to see the spiritual withinthe physical, as essentially united with the physical. For this reason also it isparticularly important in America that people are able to regularly encounterthe spiritual in external sensory form, as it can exist above all through worksof art and architecture.BibliographyAdams, Henry, et al. John La Farge. New York: Abbeville, 1987.Baigell, Matthew. Thomas Cole. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1982.Baur , John I. H. The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield 1893–1967.Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1984.Boyle, Richard. American Impressionism. Boston: Little, Brown andCompany, 1974.Bush-Brown, Albert. Louis Sullivan. New York: George Braziller, 1960.Cohn, Sherrye. Arthur Dove: Nature as Symbol. Ann Arbor: UMI ResearchPress, 1985.Davidson, Abraham A. Early American Modernist Painting 1910–1935. NewYork: Harper and Row, 1981.Francis, Richard. Jasper Johns. New York: Abbeville, 1984.Fry, Edward F. and Miranda McClintic. David Smith: Painter, Sculptor,Draftsman. New York: George Braxiller, 1982.Gerdts, William H. American Impressionism. New York: Abbeville, 1984.Greenthal, Kathryn. Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor. New York:Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.Homer, William Innes. Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde.Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.Howat, John K. The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking Press,1972.Lippard, Lucy R. Pop Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.146