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Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition

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Informationen zum Autor Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Zusammenfassung This volume provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Key Words Introduction by Sarah Lippert Part I: Travel of Great Import: Culture, Class, and Politics Chapter 1 by Monica Anke Hahn: "Images of Novelties : " The Adorned Body in John Webber’s A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing Chapter 2 by Alice Walkiewicz: The Humor of Circumstance : Caricature and the Foreign Tour of the British Middle Class Chapter 3 by Chad Airhart: Tours of the Charleston Renaissance and the Visual Construction of Southern Charm : A Comparison of Local versus Visiting Artists Part II: Travel on a Smaller Scale: Voyages in the Familiar Chapter 4 by Elsie Heung: Elevated in the City : Ashcan Realism and the Visualization of the "El" Train in New York City, 1900 – 30 Chapter 5 by Anna Piperato: The Palio of Siena : A Journey through Time Chapter 6 by Stephen Cartwright: Quantified Drift Part III: Imaginary Travel and Travel of the Mind Chapter 7 by Gerald Hess: Itinerant Hadrian and Imperial Patronage Belonging to all the World Chapter 8 by Liana De Girolami Cheney: Giorgio Vasari's Planetary Ceiling : A Neoplatonic Voyage Chapter 9 by Sarah Lippert: Going back to the Beginning of Things : The Ancient Origins of the Arts of France Part IV: Trail Blazers: Travel for the Brave Chapter 10 by Gillian Greenhill Hannum: Zaida Ben – Yusuf Chapter 11 by Efram Burke: Beyond the European Grand Tour : The Travels and Related Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach Chapter 12 by Caroline Gillaspie: Women in High Places : Georgia O’Keeffe and Julia Codesido in the Peruvian Andes Conclusion by Sarah Lippert Bibliography Index ...

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