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Looking askance : skepticism and American art from Eakins to Duchamp
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- Creator
- Michael Leja
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 300 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520238077, 0520238079
- OCLC
- ocm53253986
- "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.
- Introduction: looking askance -- Mumler's fraudulent photographs -- Eakins's reality effects -- Impressionism and nature's deceptions -- Touching pictures by William Harnett -- Buffalo's illusions -- The self's deceptions -- Humbugs for highbrows: Duchamp's readymades in New York -- Notes