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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Opening the Space Between: Antebellum American Pendant Paintings
History of the Pendant
Antebellum American Pendants
Dualism and Transgression
Pairs and Intervals
Extraordinary Examples
Beyond Content
Notes
1 Putting the “Rip” in Rip Van Winkle: Historical Absence in John Quidor’s Pendant Paintings
An Idiosyncratic Artist
Retrospection
A Different Type of History Painting
Ellipsis
Revolution in a Dream Space
History in a Fiery World
Retrospecting about Retrospection
The Question of History
Notes
2 Taking a Contemplative Look: Visual Devotion in Thomas Cole’s The Departure and The Return
A Higher Style of Landscape
Reviving the Gothic
Defeat and Salvation
The Journey
Returning
Shifting Perspectives
Disguise
At Odds with Public Taste
Effortful Looking
Activating the Beholder
Broken Panorama
Difficulty
Madonna
Unfolding Diptych
Looking Again
Notes
3 The Missing Pacific: The Expeditionary Blank in Titian Ramsay Peale’s Kilauea Landscapes
A Life in Natural History
On Topography
On Ethnography
Two Views
Threat and Evasion
On Volcanoes and Craters
Experiencing the Navigational Blank
Insecurities of Expeditionary Imaging
Records of Loss
Notes
Epilogue: After the Antebellum: Pendants during the Civil War and Postbellum Era
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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