"This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture picturing a preindustrial-and largely imaginary- European past. By examining both the artistic production and critical…
This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination's potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dio…
"This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture picturing a preindustrial-and largely imaginary- European past. By examining both the artistic production and critical…