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Citizen spectator : art, illusion, and visual perception in early national America / Wendy Bellion.

Author: Bellion, Wendy.

Publisher:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; Williamsburg, Va. : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c2011.

Description:xviii, 351 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Northwestern University).

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Theaters of visuality -- The politics of discernment -- Sight and the city -- Imitations and originals -- Looking for the invisible lady -- Phantasmagoric Washington.



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