Out of earshot : sound, technology, and power in American art, 1860-1900 /
"How can sound invoke a collective memory or community? What does progress sound like? What does power sound like? How should painting relate to the masses? Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing considered these questions and took on the burden of picturing sound in the mute me...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cultural and class distance in Homer's soundscapes
- Thomas Eakins, the musical sounds of progress, and the silencing of technological labor
- Thomas Wilmer Dewing, the gendering of listening, and Gilded Age elitism
- Epilogue.