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Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp
by
Michael Leja
If seeing ever really was a reason for believing, it surely was not in New York around 1900. The rift between appearances and truth was widening: deceptive images flourished in advertising and mass media; science contradicted unaided vision; the spirit world gained credibility; and hucksters, frauds, and hoaxes proliferated. In "Looking Askance, "Michael Leja con...more
Hardcover, 300 pages
Published
October 4th 2004
by University of California Press
(first published 2004)
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