American Iconology : New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by David C. Miller (1995, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300065140
ISBN-139780300065145
eBay Product ID (ePID)97887

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Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Iconology : New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Publication Year1995
SubjectGeneral, American / General, History / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt
AuthorDavid C. Miller
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700.973
SynopsisThis 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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