1st Edition
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture
By Catherine Holochwost
Copyright 2020
212 Pages
14 Color & 46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
14 Color & 46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Historicizing the Imagination
2. 'A Representation So Completely Ad Vivim'
3. Staying on the Surface
4. Race-ing and the Embodied Imagination
5. Culturing the Embodied Imagination in Luman Reed's New York
Biography
Catherine Holochwost is Assistant Professor of Art History at La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA.
