{"product_id":"speculative-landscapes-american-art-and-real-estate-in-the-nineteenth-century-hardcover","title":"Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoss Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Landscapes \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy--Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer--Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Landscape\u003c\/i\u003es reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the rise of the modern real estate economy through art's entanglements with processes of speculation, gentrification, and various forms of land management between 1820 and 1900, \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for painting as a key site where those processes were worked out and, in some cases, resisted. Ross Barrett's case studies reject any opposition between art and business to argue for both as 'deeply imaginative' endeavors.--Jennifer A. Greenhill, author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive look at speculation, enclosure, outlay, debt, recompense, and the process by which land becomes property. Barrett shows how painting provided a tool for comprehending and commenting on that act of becoming.\"--Leo Mazow, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of \u003ci\u003eOil Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 10.3 x 7.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158962081927,"sku":"9780520343917","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b4f4cf25bed6c870f55dd02c5c55b26b.webp?v=1733262975","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/speculative-landscapes-american-art-and-real-estate-in-the-nineteenth-century-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}