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American picturesque / John Conron.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NX503.7 .C66 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conron, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, American--19th century.
- Arts, American.
- Picturesque, The.
- Picturesque, The, in architecture.
- Local Subjects:
- Picturesque, The, in architecture.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000.
- Contents:
- The picturesque aesthetic: an introduction
- Eclecticism and the multiplication of feelings in forms
- Reading forms: symbolism in picturesque effect
- Reading the human body: the dramatization of picturesque effect
- An art of the scene
- The body as narrative in American genre painting
- Space as a verb: frame and narrator in landscapes and interiors
- Comparing the picturesque arts: architecture and landscape architecture as painting
- Comparing the picturesque arts: literature as painting
- The gendered American dream house
- The picturesque city
- Walden as picturesque narrative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-350) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0271019204 (acid-free paper)
- 9780271019208 (acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 207043588
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