One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta

Yale University Press
One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta
One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta
Product Specifications
  • Title: One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic by Martha Banta
  • Author: Martha Banta
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • The arts general issues
  • No. of pages: 336
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 235 x 156 x 25

Product Description

Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest Focuses on three major 'testing grounds' where 19th-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace 'everything' in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying 'the idea of creation'.