The Aesthetics of Intoxication in Antebellum American Art and Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorPromey, Sally Men_US
dc.contributor.authorJordan, Guy Duaneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-22T05:33:50Z
dc.date.available2007-06-22T05:33:50Z
dc.date.issued2007-04-24
dc.description.abstractMy dissertation, The Aesthetics of Intoxication in Antebellum American Art and Culture, proposes an ambitious re-evaluation of aesthetics in the United States between 1830 and 1860 that locates the consumption of images in relation to discourses of excess, addiction, and dependency. I uncover the antebellum period's physiological construction of looking as a somatic process akin to eating and drinking and offer a new definition of aesthetic absorption not merely as the disembodied projection of the viewer into a pictorial space, but as the corporeal ingestion of the image into the mind of the viewing subject. I demonstrate how this heretofore unstudied and historically-grounded alignment of aesthesis and alimentation played a crucial role in the production and reception of antebellum literature and visual culture. To this end, my dissertation stands as a broad-ranging cultural history that features fundamental reinterpretations of major works of art by Charles Deas, Thomas Cole, Hiram Powers, and Frederic Church.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/6781
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtemperanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcharles deasen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledthomas coleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhiram powersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfrederic churchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledamerican arten_US
dc.titleThe Aesthetics of Intoxication in Antebellum American Art and Cultureen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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