Rebecca Bedell
Biographic Data
| ID | 389149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Bedell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bedell |
| SIGNATURE | BEDELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3005-1979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Anatomy of Nature
Anatomy of Nature
Love Rising
This essay surveys the shifting emotional regimes in Western art from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first, concentrating on the place accorded social affections. In particular, it calls attention to a significant change underway in recent decades as the suppression of the full range of emotions instigated by modernism has been challenged and the tender emotions re-embraced. Important contemporary artists, such as Hank Willis Thomas and E…
What Is Sentimental Art
John Quidor and the Demonic Imagination
John Quidor and the Demonic Imagination: Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman (c.1828) Rebecca Bedell (bio) John Quidor’s (1801–1881) works are closely linked to the writings of Washington Irving. Nearly two-thirds of his extant canvasses depict scenes drawn from Irving’s tales of old Dutch New York. Such marked allegiance to a single author would seem to suggest that Quidor found in Irving’s work plots, characters, and themes which ad…
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John Quidor and the Demonic Imagination
John Quidor and the Demonic Imagination: Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman (c.1828) Rebecca Bedell (bio) John Quidor’s (1801–1881) works are closely linked to the writings of Washington Irving. Nearly two-thirds of his extant canvasses depict scenes drawn from Irving’s tales of old Dutch New York. Such marked allegiance to a single author would seem to suggest that Quidor found in Irving’s work plots, characters, and themes which ad…
What Is Sentimental Art
The Anatomy of Nature
Anatomy of Nature
Love Rising
This essay surveys the shifting emotional regimes in Western art from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first, concentrating on the place accorded social affections. In particular, it calls attention to a significant change underway in recent decades as the suppression of the full range of emotions instigated by modernism has been challenged and the tender emotions re-embraced. Important contemporary artists, such as Hank Willis Thomas and E…
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