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Beautiful Deceptions - European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (Hardcover)
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Beautiful Deceptions - European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (Hardcover)
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The art of the early republic abounds in representations of
deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with
visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque
novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd
adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their
seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp
Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens
not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of
Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson,
Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler
invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's
and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into
mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax
sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions
examines how these and other artists of the era at times
acknowledge art's dues to other social realms-religion, morality,
politics-but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive
their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous
notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth
century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of
aesthetics as ""the science of sensuous cognition"" and the
writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller,
Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political
readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic
perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through
early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century
debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it
responds to shifts in social and political organization.
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