Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century
Author:   Ross Barrett
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520343917


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   23 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ross Barrett
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780520343917


ISBN 10:   0520343913
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   23 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley  2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier 3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England 4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida  5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck  Conclusion  Acknowledgments  Notes  Selected Bibliography  List of Illustrations  Index   

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"""Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading."" * Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide * ""[The book] is exemplary in its purposeful investigations that, in breaking from standard interpretations, enables readers to see and understand multifaceted aspects of works of art with clarity while opening the door to other new inquiries."" * Nineteenth Century: The Magazine of the Victorian Society in America *"


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Ross Barrett is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He is the author of Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and the coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of Oil Culture.  

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