Prizes for Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (Book)

The Charles C. Eldredge Prize [link]
Date: 4/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
Organization: Smithsonian American Art Museum [link]
Abstract: Awarded to a recent book-length publication that provides new insight into works of art, the artists who made them, or aspects of history and theory that enrich our understanding of America's artistic heritage. The Eldredge Prize seeks to recognize originality and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing, clarity of method, and significance for professional or public audiences. It is especially meant to honor those authors who deepen or focus debates in the field, or who broaden the discipline by reaching beyond traditional boundaries. About 'Citizen Spectator': “A truly interdisciplinary study, drawing on history, art history, the history of science, media studies, philosophy, popular taste and political science, among other fields of inquiry, Bellion’s book serves as a model of writing about American art and visual culture that takes equally seriously problems of representation and problems of citizenship and the body politic. It thus reveals an important and prev

Permalink: https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/prizes.aspx?id=3184