Painting the dark side
Subtitle: art and the Gothic imagination in nineteenth-century America
By: Sarah Burns.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780520238213
Subjects: Painting, American -- 19th century; Race awareness in art; Stereotype (Psychology) in art; Masculinity in art; Art and mythology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gloom and doom; title: The underground man; title: The shrouded past; title: The deepest dark; title: The shadow's curse; title: Mental monsters; title: Corrosive sight; title: Dirty pictures.