Voyages of the Self
Pairs, Parallels and Patterns in American Art and Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 September 2009
- ISBN 9780195387919
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 159x233x15 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 46 black and white halftone illustrations, 17 colour plates 0
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Short description:
A short, brilliantly researched treatise on the what it means to be American, looking at America's paramount artists and writers, by acclaimed art historian Barbara Novak. Lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos.
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Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture. Now, with the paperback of Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works, offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. In this book, Novak explores several inspired pairings of key writers and painters, drawing insightful parallels between such masters as John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards, Winslow Homer and William James, Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman, and Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson. Through these and other groupings, Novak tracks the varied meanings of the self in America, in which the most salient characteristics of each artist or writer is shown to draw from-and in turn influence-the larger map of American life. Two major threads weaving through the book are the American preoccupation with the "object" and our continuing return to pragmatism. Through fruitful comparisons-whether between Copley and Edwards, or Lane and Emerson, or Ryder and Dickinson-Novak sheds unmatched light on our nation's artistic heritage.
"No one has done more to further the place of this work in museum collections and in history booksVoyages of the Self , generously illustrated, is billed as the last in a trilogy, though there's no need to read her previous efforts to appreciate it. Novak distills, refines and expands upon her earlier books, looking at painters in relation to the literature and major philosophical trends of the dayHer insights about writers are as fine as those about artists The chapters have a momentum that carries us from chapter to chapter, from the mid-18th century through the mid-20th century. And her way of conveying the stories of these artists and writers makes one want to view and read them anew. What better purpose can arts criticism and history serve?"--San Diego Union Tribune
Table of Contents:
Copley and Edwards: Self, Consciousness, and Thing
Emerson and Lane: Luminist Time and the Transcendental Aboriginal Self
Thoreau and the Indian Self: Circles, Silence and Democratic Land
Whitman and Church: Transcendant Optimism and the Democratic Self
Homer and James: The Pragmatic Self made Concrete
Dickinson and Ryder: Immortality, Eternity and the Reclusive Self
Pollock and Olson: Time, Space, and the Activated Bodily Self
