The portrait's subject : inventing inner life in the nineteenth-century United States /

"Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. ... images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era. Combining visual theory, liter...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Blackwood, Sarah (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:	Studies in United States culture.
Subjects:	Portraits, American. Identity (Psychology) in art. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Psychology and art.