Speculative Landscapes : American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century.
Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy--Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, E...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
University of California Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2zx9qqr |
| Summary: | Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy--Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer--Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780520975248 0520975243 9780520343917 |