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  • The Commerce of Vision

    Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America

    by Peter John Brownlee ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted their wares to consumers on the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Commerce of Vision

    Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America

    by Peter John Brownlee ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted their wares to consumers on the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...
    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Fables Of Abundance

    A Cultural History Of Advertising In America

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Promiscuous Knowledge

    Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

    by Kenneth Cmiel, John Durham Peters ...
    "[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century." —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going to the Territory

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    "The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."-- Washington Post Book WorldThe seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Audible Past

    Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

    by Jonathan Sterne ...
    The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    by Alain Locke, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin Classic**For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Eadweard Muybridge

    by Marta Braun ...
    Series Book 32 - Critical Lives
    Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach accident, a betrayal and a murder trial. Marta Braun’s new biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge’s life against his personal ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • MUYBRIDGE: THE EYE IN MOTION

    by Stephen Barber ...
    All contemporary visual culture can be traced directly back to the work of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), whose prolific and inspirational experiments in moving-image photography, animation and projection shattered the boundaries of how images and human bodies are perceived. Muybridge’s work had a pivotal twentieth-century influence on artists such as Francis Bacon, but that work’s impact is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD