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Citizen spectator : art, illusion, and visual perception in early national America Wendy Bellion
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks N 72 .S6 B395 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellion, Wendy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--United States--History--18th century.
- Art and society.
- Art and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Optical illusions in art.
- Visual perception--Social aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Visual perception.
- Visual perception--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 351 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Contents:
- Theaters of visuality
- The politics of discernment
- Sight and the city
- Imitations and originals
- Looking for the invisible lady
- Phantasmagoric Washington.
- Notes:
- Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Northwestern University).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: "Designs of buildings in Philadelphia, Centre Square" (Bb 615 L354), "American lamenting her loss at the tomb of General Washington" (Wkin & Harrison), "Example of fine writing by Samuel Lewis" (Society Collection, Flat, Box Wray-Wyth).
- ISBN:
- 9780807833889 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807833886 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 640132952
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