Citizen spectator : art, illusion, and visual perception in early national America / Wendy Bellion.

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Bellion, Wendy [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; (c)2011.; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 351 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469600437

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

N72 .C585 2011

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Contents:

The politics of discernment -- Sight and the city -- Imitations and originals -- Looking for the invisible lady -- Phantasmagoric Washington -- Conclusion.

Subject: "Investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, 'Invisible Ladies,' and other spectacles of deception."--Publisher description.

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Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Northwestern University).

"Investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, 'Invisible Ladies,' and other spectacles of deception."--Publisher description.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Theaters of visuality -- The politics of discernment -- Sight and the city -- Imitations and originals -- Looking for the invisible lady -- Phantasmagoric Washington -- Conclusion.

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