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Book Synopsis
Examining the work of well-known American artists such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Frederic Remington, and Mary Cassatt, Charles Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the reception of art and the development of modern ways of seeing it.

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"Charles Colbert offers a welcome examination of the nineteenth-century intersections of American art and Spiritualism. An original and substantial contribution in an area that has long been ripe for this kind of focused scholarly attention." * Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis *

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The History and Teachings of Spiritualism
Chapter 1. Who Speaks for the Dead?
Chapter 2. Reenchanting America
Chapter 3. Revelations by Daylight
Chapter 4. Ghostly Gloamings
Chapter 5. Land of Promise
Chapter 6. Romantic Conjurations
Chapter 7. The Critic as Psychic
Chapter 8. Lessons in Clairvoyance
Postscript
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 7 June 2011
      ISBN-13 9780812243253
      978-0812243253
      ISBN-10 0812243250
      Also in:
      Religious and ceremonial arts Spiritualism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining the work of well-known American artists such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Frederic Remington, and Mary Cassatt, Charles Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the reception of art and the development of modern ways of seeing it.

      Trade Review
      "Charles Colbert offers a welcome examination of the nineteenth-century intersections of American art and Spiritualism. An original and substantial contribution in an area that has long been ripe for this kind of focused scholarly attention." * Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis *

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Introduction: The History and Teachings of Spiritualism
      Chapter 1. Who Speaks for the Dead?
      Chapter 2. Reenchanting America
      Chapter 3. Revelations by Daylight
      Chapter 4. Ghostly Gloamings
      Chapter 5. Land of Promise
      Chapter 6. Romantic Conjurations
      Chapter 7. The Critic as Psychic
      Chapter 8. Lessons in Clairvoyance
      Postscript
      Notes
      Selected Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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