The Empire of the Eye Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875

Angela L Miller

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During the period under study, the landscape genre carried an exaggerated weight of meaning for the collective national identity, and artists wrestled with its formal, representational, and expressive issues. Miller (art history, Washington U.) studies why landscape painting held such a key place in American art and also what its role was in the fo

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ISBN:	9780801428302
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Pub date:	31 Dec 1993
DEWEY:	758.173097309034
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	298
Weight:	1200g
Height:	260mm
Width:	210mm
Spine width:	25mm