Shaping the body politic : art and political formation in early America
McInnis (art, U. of Virginia) and Nelson (architectural history, U. of Virginia) present eight essays from a conference sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the U. of Virginia on the role of the visual arts in shaping Jeffersonian America. The two major themes that emerge from the proceedings are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the relationship between art and politics and representations of the human body as metaphor for the body politic. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Print Book, English, 2011
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2011