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.
| ISBN: | 9780367175566 |
| Publication date: | 12th March 2020 |
| Author: | Catherine Holochwost |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Genres: |
History of art Popular culture Media studies Philosophy: aesthetics Museology and heritage studies Regional / International studies Sociology History of the Americas The arts: general topics |
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.
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture features in the following genres: History of art, Popular culture, Media studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Museology and heritage studies, Regional / International studies, Sociology, History of the Americas, The arts: general topics
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture is available in Hardback
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture was written by Catherine Holochwost and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture has 200 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art History series
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