A Measure of Perfection
Subtitle: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780807823705
Subjects: Cultural studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Phrenology & physiognomy; United States; History; 19th Century Art; Special Subjects In Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; History - General; General; 19th century; Arts, American; Intellectual life; Phrenology
First sentence: A young man, named Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a classmate of my lamented son George, after failing in the everyday avocations of a Unitarian preacher and schoolmaster, starts a new doctrine of transcendentalism, declares all the old revelations superannuated and worn out, and announces the approach of new revelations and prophecies.