LEADER 03884nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910788582903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89791-1 010 $a0-8122-0499-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204995 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064723 035 $a(OCoLC)794700597 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642692 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606404 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606404 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580424 035 $a(PQKB)11015010 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8271 035 $a(DE-B1597)463536 035 $a(OCoLC)979904819 035 $a(OCoLC)980165318 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642692 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441940 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064723 100 $a20110127d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHaunted visions$b[electronic resource] $espiritualism and American art /$fCharles Colbert 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4325-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-314) and index. 327 $tThe History and Teachings of Spiritualism --$tWho Speaks for the Dead? --$tReenchanting America --$tRevelations by Daylight --$tGhostly Gloamings --$tLand of Promise --$tRomantic Conjurations --$tThe Critic as Psychic --$tLessons in Clairvoyance. 330 $aSpiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age.Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the evolution of modern attitudes toward creativity. He argues that Spiritualism made a singular contribution to the sanctification of art that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The faith maintained that spiritual energies could reside in objects, and thus works of art could be appreciated not only for what they illustrated but also as vessels of the psychic vibrations their creators impressed into them. Such beliefs sanctified both the making and collecting of art in an era when Darwinism and Positivism were increasingly disenchanting the world and the efforts to represent it. In this context, Spiritualism endowed the artist's profession with the prestige of a religious calling; in doing so, it sought not to replace religion with art, but to make art a site where religion happened. 606 $aArt, American$y19th century 606 $aSpiritualism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSpiritualism in art 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aArchitecture. 610 $aFine Art. 610 $aGarden History. 615 0$aArt, American 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory. 615 0$aSpiritualism in art. 676 $a701/.08 700 $aColbert$b Charles$f1946-$01467627 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788582903321 996 $aHaunted visions$93678360 997 $aUNINA