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Looking into Walt Whitman : American art, 1850-1920 / Ruth L. Bohan.
Van Pelt Library PS3242.A66 B64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bohan, Ruth L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Knowledge and learning--Art.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Art and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Art and literature.
- United States.
- History.
- Art and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Appreciation--United States.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Influence.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Portraits.
- Modernism (Art)--United States.
- Modernism (Art).
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Why is Walt Whitman's face as familiar as his poetry? In answering this question, Ruth Bohan tells a story of self-invention and portraiture. Whitman approached successive editions of
- Contents:
- Imaging Whitman: the nineteenth century. The "gathering of the forces" in Brooklyn
- Masks, identity, and representation
- Visual self-fashioning and artistic (re)assessment
- Reception and representation in the 1880s
- Thomas Eakins and the "solitary singer"
- Whitman and the modernists: the twentieth century. Marsden Hartley's masculine landscapes
- Robert Coady and The soil
- Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271027029
- OCLC:
- 60311754
- Publisher Number:
- 9780271027029
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