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Indlæser... Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmasaf Alan Trachtenberg
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. An examination in the style of literary criticism of photography and literature as it searches for American culture, particularly American city culture. The literature and collections of photography examined were created between 1830 and 1950. ( ) The best essay in the collection is the title essay. Trachtenberg's discussion of the narrative the viewer crafts through the viewing of portraits is fascinating. I lost interest a few pages into the essay on "Photographs as Symbolic History." I think most of his points have already been covered in other books on photographic history. The book would be especially interesting to Hawthorne readers. I never considered House of Seven Gables from that perspective before. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"Lincoln's Smile demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." --Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University.
Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford. No library descriptions found. |
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