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Picturing (Paperback)
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Picturing (Paperback)
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The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also
a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects.
As Picturing convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American
art has given rise to profound thinking about the nature and
capacity of images and formed responses to some of most pressing
problems of picturing: What is an image, and why make one? What do
images do? The first volume in a new series on critical concerns in
the history of American art, Picturing brings together essays by a
distinguished international group of scholars who discuss the
creation and consumption of images from the early modern period
through the end of the twentieth century. Some of the contributions
focus on art critical texts, like Gertrude Stein's portrait of
Cezanne, while others have as their point of departure particular
artworks, from a portrait of Benjamin Franklin to Eadweard
Muybridge's nineteenth-century photographs of the California Coast.
Works that addressed images and image making were not confined to
the academy; they spilled out into poetry, literature, theater, and
philosophy, and the essays' considerations likewise range freely,
from painting to natural history illustrations, travel narratives,
and popular fiction. Together, the contributions demonstrate a rich
deliberation that thoroughly debunks the notion that American art
is merely derivative of a European tradition. With a wealth of new
research and full-color illustrations, Picturing significantly
expands the terrain of scholarship on American art.
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