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The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture
Contributor(s): Holochwost, Catherine (Author)
ISBN: 0367175568     ISBN-13: 9780367175566
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $171.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - Romanticism
- Art | American - General
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 709.730
LCCN: 2019049325
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.1" W x 10.1" (1.50 lbs) 190 pages
 
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This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination's potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dioramas, gift books, and theatrical performances that pictured a preindustrial--and largely imaginary--European past. By examining the visual, material, and rhetorical strategies artists like Washington Allston, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, and others used to navigate this treacherous ground, Catherine Holochwost uncovers a hidden tension in antebellum aesthetics. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, literary and cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, and media studies.