"Beautifully written in an engaging style, this book provides a new perspective on turn-of-the-century American culture that nuances and complicates our vision of that historical moment. I have no doubt that it will become a classic text in American studies, the history of American art, and the study of visual culture."--Kathleen Pyne, author of "Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America" "Michael Leja, one of our most original and acute historians of American art, has ...
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"Beautifully written in an engaging style, this book provides a new perspective on turn-of-the-century American culture that nuances and complicates our vision of that historical moment. I have no doubt that it will become a classic text in American studies, the history of American art, and the study of visual culture."--Kathleen Pyne, author of "Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America" "Michael Leja, one of our most original and acute historians of American art, has written an indispensable and lively study of what we might call the modern anxiety of seeing. He traces our inherently skeptical view of the world back to the turn of the last century, a golden age of hucksters, swindlers, quacks, humbugs, rascals, cheats, and confidence men, and shows how artists as diverse as Eakins and Duchamp fit into this new culture of suspicion. Leja's book breathes fresh life into the period."--Michael Kimmelman "Bringing together the strangest of bedfellows-paintings by Thomas Eakins, spirit photographs, William Harnett's still lifes, occult philosophies, Duchamp readymades-Leja uncovers a deep culture of suspicion and skepticism in America around 1900. As Americans grappled with the complexities of modern life, 'seeing was not believing, ' he argues in this deeply researched and brilliantly provocative study."--Wanda M. Corn, author of "The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935"
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Very good jacket. First Edition. First printing. Good hardcover in very good-dust jacket; dj has light corner wear. Gently used with some mild age-toning. Has several very small pencil markings (such as a dot next to a paragraph).
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Good. Softcover with several pen underlines, margin annotations and brackets. solid binding. very light cover wear. ISBN matches listing FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
