Citizen spectator : art, illusion, and visual perception in early national America /
Investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Mus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Summary: | Investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, 'Invisible Ladies' and other spectacles of deception. |
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| Item Description: | Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Northwestern University). |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 351 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807833889 0807833886 |