 | The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture Subjects: Museum and Heritage Studies; Arts; Area Studies; Humanities; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; American Studies; Heritage Management & Conservation; Art & Visual Culture; History; Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; Cultural Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Museum Studies; History of Art; Visual Culture; American History; Aesthetics; Popular Culture; Race & Ethnicity; Sexuality & the Body; The Body; Modern Art; Media & Communications; 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. Catherine Holochwost is Assistant Professor of Art History at La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA. |
