{"product_id":"voyages-of-the-self-pairs-parallels-and-patterns-in-american-art-and-literature","title":"Voyages of the Self: Pairs  Parallels  and Patterns in American Art and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarbara Novak is one of Americas premier art historians  the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture  the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now  with Voyages of the Self  this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works  offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. In this book  Novak explores several inspired pairings of key writers and painters  drawing insightful parallels between such masters as John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards  Winslow Homer and William James  Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman  and Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson. Through these and other groupings  Novak tracks the varied meanings of the self in America  in which the most salient characteristics of each artist or writer is shown to draw from--and in turn influence--the larger map of American life. Two major threads weaving through the book are the American preoccupation with the \"object\" and our continuing return to pragmatism. Novak notes for instance how Copleys art mirrors the puritan denial of self found in Jonathan Edwards and how as colonial scientists they share an interest in sensation and observation. She sees Winslow Homer and William James as practitioners of a pragmatic self grounded in an immediate experience that looks for concrete results. Through such fruitful comparisons--whether between Copley and Edwards  or Lane and Emerson  or Ryder and Dickinson--Novak sheds unmatched light on our nations artistic heritage. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white pictures and sixteen full-color plates  here is a stunning work that yields a wealth of insight into American art and culture--and concludes Novaks landmark trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964110139445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195305906","price":37.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195305906.jpg?v=1770449339","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/voyages-of-the-self-pairs-parallels-and-patterns-in-american-art-and-literature","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}