Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Hardcover
2011 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
by Bellion, Wendy
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Hardcover. VG/VG. Green cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; 351 pp.; 83 bw figures. From the dust jacket: "...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." Focuses particularly on the works of the Peale family and other Philadelphians. (Inventory #: 124922)