{"product_id":"painting-the-dark-side-art-and-the-gothic-imagination-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780520238213","title":"Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003eVoices from the dark  or \"gothic \" side of American life are well known through the work of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe  Nathaniel Hawthorne  and Herman Melville. But who were the Poes of American art? Until now  art historians have for the most part seen the gothic as the province of misfits and oddballs who rejected the bright landscapes and cheerful scenes of everyday life depicted by Hudson River School and other mainstream painters. In Painting the Dark Side  Sarah Burns counters this view  arguing that far from being marginal  the gothic was a pervasive and potent visual language used by recognized masters and eccentric outsiders alike to express the darker facets of history and the psyche. A deep gothic strain in the visual arts becomes evident in these beautifully written  richly illustrated pages  illuminating the entire spectrum of American art.  Weaving a complex tapestry of biography  psychology  and history  Sarah Burns exposes dark dimensions in the work of both romantic artists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder and Thomas Cole and realists like Thomas Eakins. She argues persuasively that works by artists who were generally considered outsiders  such as John Quidor  David Gilmour Blythe  and William Rimmer  belong to the mainstream of American art. She explores the borderlands where popular visual culture mingled with the elite medium of oil and delves into such topics as slave revolt  drugs  grave-robbing  vivisection  drunkenness  female monstrosity  and family secrets. Cutting deep across the grain of standard nationalistic accounts of nineteenth-century art  Painting the Dark Side provides a thrilling  radically alternative vision of American art and visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652313669685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520238214","price":193.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520238213.jpg?v=1781851076","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/painting-the-dark-side-art-and-the-gothic-imagination-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780520238213","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}