Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America Tapa blanda - 2006 - 1st Edición

University of California Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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University of California Press. Near Fine. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0520249879 . First edition softcover. Fine condition. A square tight unmarked copy. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. xxiii, 303 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. "Voices from the dark, or 'gothic,' side of American life are well known through the work of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But who were the Poes of American art? Until now, art historians have for the most part seen the gothic as the province of misfits and oddballs who rejected the bright landscapes and cheerful scenes of everyday life depicted by Hudson River School and other mainstream painters. In Painting the Dark Side, Sarah Burns counters this view, arguing that far from being marginal, the gothic was a pervasive and potent visual language used by recognized masters and eccentric outsiders alike to express the darker facets of history and the psyche. A deep gothic strain in the visual arts becomes evident in these beautifully written, richly illustrated… Leer más

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