Date of Award
Spring 5-6-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Joachim Pissarro
Second Advisor
Susanna Cole
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
This thesis examines how artists, intellectuals, spiritual seekers, and industrialists represented the American horizon across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The purpose of this inquiry is to show how art transmuted ideological and religious beliefs across time and to demonstrate the interdependence of esoteric self-perceptions and American hegemonic power.
Recommended Citation
FRIEDMAN, JASON, "An Infinite Horizon: Space, Time, & Mind in the American Imaginary from Thomas Cole to Agnes Pelton, 1825-1961" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/715
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