Speculative Landscapes

Speculative Landscapes
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780520975248
ISBN-13 : 0520975243
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Download or read book Speculative Landscapes written by Ross Barrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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