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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813939038
ISBN-13
9780813939032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229006046
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Beautiful Deceptions : European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art
Subject
American / General, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-006839
Reviews
In its contextualization of novels and visual artworks within continental aesthetics... Beautiful Deceptions is an invaluable contribution to the field and invites scholars to consider more deeply the aesthetic turn as it applies to the case of the early Republic., Beautiful Deceptions strikes that rare balance between presenting penetrating analyses and enthralling historiography. It offers complexity of subject matter, knowledgeable moderation between multiple theoretical perspectives, themes, and subjects as well as high-caliber criticism., Beautiful Deceptions is an enthralling book and a masterful narrative on how modernization and European aesthetic theory are played out in the artistic realm of postrevolutionary America. Offering a rich deposit of transnational readings in the arts and literature, the book stands as an authoritative and invaluable history of Western art, magisterial in its scope and immensely readable. Here is a writer of distinction with a deep theoretical underpinning--the fullest, richest, and most compelling study of the subject., Schweighauser interprets motifs of deception and illusion in early American fiction and visual art as indices of the political transformation of the young republic from premodern to modern values. His interpretations of key novels by Brackenridge, Rowson, Brown, Tyler, and Tenney as well as artworks by Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale, and Patience Wright enrich our understanding of early national culture.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813.209
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Aesthetics, Politics, and the Early American Novel 2. Sensory Delusions 3. The Right to Deception 4. Visual Artifice Conclusion
Synopsis
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions examines how these and other artists of the era at times acknowledge art's dues to other social realms--religion, morality, politics--but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of aesthetics as "the science of sensuous cognition" and the writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller, Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it responds to shifts in social and political organization., The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions examines how these and other artists of the era at times acknowledge art's dues to other social realms?religion, morality, politics?but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of aesthetics as "the science of sensuous cognition" and the writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller, Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it responds to shifts in social and political organization., The art of the early US republic abounds in representations of deception. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also through them. Scheighauser examines how artists of the era at times acknowledge art's dues to other social realms but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive their audiences.
LC Classification Number
PS374.A375S39 2016
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