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Martha Banta, Banta Martha, Bennett Simon

One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic

English · Hardback

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Description

Zusammenfassung Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest Focuses on three major 'testing grounds' where 19th-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace 'everything' in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying 'the idea of creation'.

Product details

Authors	Martha Banta, Banta Martha
Assisted by	Bennett Simon (Editor)
Publisher	Yale University Press Ltd

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	04.12.2007

EAN	9780300122978
ISBN	978-0-300-12297-8
No. of pages	336
Dimensions	171 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries USA, Architecture, Theory of art, English, ART / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, United States of America, USA

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