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Picturing Thoreau : Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (182 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739189078
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Picturing ThoreauDDC classification:
  • 818/.309
LOC classification:
  • PS3053 -- .S85 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Images of Thoreau From His Own Lifetime (1817-1862) -- Chapter 2: Thoreau's Memory Kept Alive By a Few Friends (1862-1917) -- Chapter 3: Thoreau Starts His Rise to Prominence (1917-1939) -- Chapter 4: Thoreau Takes Center Stage (1940-1967) -- Chapter 5: Multiple Visions of Thoreau (1968-Present) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Checklist of Thoreau Images By American Artists, 1854-Present -- Appendix B: Brief Timeline of Important Events in the Development of Thoreau's Reputation -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
Summary: This book examines, in detail, about 30 portraits of Henry David Thoreau that were done by American artists between 1854 and the present day. It becomes clear from this study that although Thoreau's features have been "used" in a bewildering variety of ways to convey a host of messages (some of which would have dismayed him), there is a remarkable consistency, and relevance for us today, in what he was trying to convey to his fellow Americans.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Images of Thoreau From His Own Lifetime (1817-1862) -- Chapter 2: Thoreau's Memory Kept Alive By a Few Friends (1862-1917) -- Chapter 3: Thoreau Starts His Rise to Prominence (1917-1939) -- Chapter 4: Thoreau Takes Center Stage (1940-1967) -- Chapter 5: Multiple Visions of Thoreau (1968-Present) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Checklist of Thoreau Images By American Artists, 1854-Present -- Appendix B: Brief Timeline of Important Events in the Development of Thoreau's Reputation -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

This book examines, in detail, about 30 portraits of Henry David Thoreau that were done by American artists between 1854 and the present day. It becomes clear from this study that although Thoreau's features have been "used" in a bewildering variety of ways to convey a host of messages (some of which would have dismayed him), there is a remarkable consistency, and relevance for us today, in what he was trying to convey to his fellow Americans.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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