The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Art History
Release date:	March 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Catherine Holochwost
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-17556-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Promotions
LSN:	0-367-17556-8
Barcode:	9780367175566

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