The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875 by Angela Miller
The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875

Angela Miller

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

Angela Miller

298 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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"The great nineteenth-century American landscape paintings - panoramic visions of natural design - have long been interpreted as expressions of the very spirit of national expansionism. Surveying American landscape art in light of its political, i...

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