Title Beautiful deceptions : European aesthetics, the early American novel, and illusionist art / Philipp Schweighauser

Published Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- Aesthetics, politics, and the early American novel -- Political deceptions and sensory delusions -- The right to deception -- Visual artifice -- Conclusion Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 9, 2016) Subject Art, American -- 18th century Art, Modern -- 18th century -- History. Deception -- In art Hallucinations and illusions in art. American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism Deception in literature. Illusion in literature. ART -- History -- General. American literature -- Colonial period Art, American Art, Modern Deception Deception in literature Hallucinations and illusions in art Illusion in literature Genre/Form Electronic books dissertations. Art Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813939032 0813939038 0813939046 9780813939049

Other Titles European aesthetics, the early American novel, and illusionist art

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