American iconology : new approaches to nineteenth-century art and literature
This overview of the "sister arts" of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of perspectives on the fundamental role played by images in culture and society. Drawing on the latest thinking about vision and visuality as well as on recent developments in literary theory and cultural studies, the contributors situate paintings, sculpture, monument art, and literary images within a variety of cultural contexts
études diverses
vi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780300054781, 9780300054798, 9780300065145, 0300054785, 0300054793, 0300065140
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Peale's mammoth / Laura Rigal
The Boston elite's resistance to Washington Allston's Elijah in the Desert / David Bjelajac
On the cultural construction of landscape experience: Contact to 1830 / Kenneth John Myers
Making a picture of the view from Mount Holyoke / Alan Wallach
The protected witness: Cole, Cooper, and the tourist's view of the Italian landscape / Brigitte Bailey
The mechanisms of the market and the invention of western regionalism: The example of George Caleb Bingham / Angela Miller
Lilly Martin Spencer's domestic genre painting in antebellum America / David Lubin
Words, monuments, beholders: The visual arts in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun / Robert H. Byer
The iconology of wrecked or stranded boats in mid to late nineteenth-century American culture / David C. Miller
The price of beauty: Art, commerce, and the late nineteenth-century American studio interior / Sarah Burns
Mary Cassatt and the maternal body / Harriet Scott Chessman
A pragmatic mode of seeing: James, Howells, and the politics of vision / Emily Fourmy Cutrer