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American picturesque
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American picturesque

Author: John Conron
Publisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Conron
ISBN: 0271019204 9780271019208
OCLC Number: 40395855
Description: xxiii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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.
Responsibility: John Conron.

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