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Shaping the body politic : art and political formation in early America
Title
Shaping the body politic : art and political formation in early America / edited by Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson.
ISBN
9780813931029 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813931029 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xi, 313 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes
Papers from a symposium held April 21-22, 2006 at University of Virginia as part of biennial Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation distinguished lecture series.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 02, 2011
Series
Thomas Jefferson Foundation distinguished lecture series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Patience Wright's transatlantic bodies / Wendy Bellion
A quiet years' clash over art, painters, and publics / David Steinberg
The American republic joins the British global landscape / John E. Crowley
Revisiting Cincinnatus : Houdon's George Washington / Maurie D. McInnis
Gilbert Stuart's presidential imaginary / Paul Staiti
Mr. Jefferson as museum maker / Roger B. Stein
"The Limner" : Harry Croswell, newspaper politics, and the portraitist as a public figure in the early republic / Susan Rather
Ideologies of the ordinary and the urban domestic landscape / Bernard L. Herman.
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