Visionary New England
$69.40
- Hardcover
148 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2020
Summary
Connecting New England’s historical spiritualist and utopian traditions-from Brook Farm to Harvard’s LSD research-to work by contemporary artists with regional ties.New England has a rich history of spiritual, mystical, and utopian strivers. Their visionary schemes range from nineteenth-century Transcendentalist experiments in communal living at Brook Farm and Fruitlands to the Harvard Project’s LSD research, led by Timothy Leary, in the mid-twentieth century. The search for alternative ways …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043984 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026204398X |
| Author: | Sarah J. Montross |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 148 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 273mm x 241mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“A provocative, multidimensional, and in moments, trippy experience of the region’s relationship with seeing beyond.” – Boston Globe
“A provocative, multidimensional, and in moments, trippy experience of the region’s relationship with seeing beyond.”
—Boston Globe
About The Author
Sarah J. Montross
Sarah J. Montross is Curator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She has curated or cocurated such notable exhibitions as Screens- Virtual Material, Cool Medium- Art, Television, and Psychedelia, and Expanding Abstraction- New England Women Painters 1950 to Now. She is the editor of Past Futures- Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (MIT Press).nies.
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