TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Justin T.
TI  - City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture 
SN  - 9781469638744
AV  - HT168.B6 C53 2018
U1  - 307.1/2160974461 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Occultism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
KW  - Arts and society
KW  - City planning
KW  - Occultisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Arts et société
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Urban
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
KW  - fast
KW  - Buildings
KW  - Travel
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ordering Boston's landscape -- Looking past disorder -- Transcending the gallery -- Drawing forth spirits -- Discovering the blind -- Enchanting the city
N2  - "In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into the "Athens of America," neighborhoods were leveled, streets straightened, and an ambitious set of architectural ordinances enacted. However, even as residents reveled in a vibrant new landscape of landmark buildings, art galleries, parks, and bustling streets, the social and sensory upheaval of city life also gave rise to a widespread fascination with the unseen. Focusing his analysis between 1820 and 1860, Justin T. Clark traces how the effort to impose moral and social order on the city also inspired many--from Transcendentalists to clairvoyants and amateur artists--to seek out more ethereal visions of the infinite and ideal beyond the gilded paintings and glimmering storefronts"--
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