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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Spectator. A New Edition in Eight Volumes ; with Illustrative Notes, to which are Prefixed The Lives of the Authors. By Robert Bisset...
Author: The Spectator
Author: The Spectator
Author: A Catalogue of Standard English Authors, Ancient and Modern ... Also a Collection of Books Relating to America and the West Indies. On Sale by Wm. Dawson & Sons, Etc
Author: Dawson, William and SonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Citizen Spectator
Author: Wendy BellionPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783890X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion 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. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Handbuch der englischen Sprache und Literatur ...: Prosaischer
Author: H. NoltePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Savage Barbecue
Author: Andrew WarnesPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328960
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Starting with Columbus's journals in 1492, Warnes shows how the perception of barbecue evolved from Spanish colonists' first fateful encounter with natives roasting iguanas and fish over fires on the beaches of Cuba. European colonists linked the new food to a savagery they perceived in American Indians, ensnaring barbecue in a growing web of racist attitudes about the New World. Warnes also unearths the etymological origins of the word barbecue, including the early form barbacoa; its coincidental similarity to barbaric reinforced emerging stereotypes."--BOOK JACKET.
Caxton head catalogues. No.186-1027 [with] Caxton head bulletin. 1-22 [and lists].
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Author: Tregaskis James and sonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Notes and extracts in illustration of A slight sketch of universal history
Author: Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
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