Book ID: CBB978426644

Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century (2022)

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Ross Barrett (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists’ financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy—Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer—Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property.

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Authors & Contributors
Lowther, David
Pasche, Eckart
Olivares Sandoval, Omar
Jonge, Hans Laurens de
Matteo Citrini
Giulia Daniele
Concepts
Painters and painting
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and art
Landscape; landscapes
Scientific illustration
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
France
South America
United States
India
Bavaria (Germany)
Institutions
British East India Company
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