The Body of Raphaelle Peale
Author: Alexander Nemerov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-03-12
Total Pages: 996
ISBN-13: 9780520224988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Body of Raphaelle Peale is a close reading not just of Raphaelle's paintings but also of the visual and intellectual culture of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia to which they intimately relate. More broadly, the book presents a reading of romanticism in the American visual arts. Above all, it is an argument about selfhood in Raphaelle's era. Raphaelle focused - in paintings both playful and morbid - on the pleasures and horrors of being a mere body, of being less than a self."--BOOK JACKET.