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 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX