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American Iconology - New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
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American Iconology - New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
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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. The volume
offers fresh and sometimes extended discussions of single works as
well as reevaluations of artistic and literary conventions and
analyses of the economic, social, and technological forces that
gave them shape and were influenced by them in turn. A wide range
of figures are significantly reassessed, including the painters
Charles Willson Peale, Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, George
Caleb Bingham, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Mary Cassatt, and such writers
as James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau,
and William Dean Howells. One overarching theme to emerge is the
development of an American national subjectivity as it interacted
with the transformation of a culture dominated by religious values
to one increasingly influenced by commercial imperatives. The
essays probe the ways in which artists and writers responded to the
changing conditions of the cultural milieu as it was mediated by
such factors as class and gender, modes of perception and
representation, and conflicting ideals and realities.
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