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Greenhill, Jennifer A. Greenhill, Jennifer A. Weissman, Terri O'Brien, David Finnegan, Cara A. Thomas, Adam 2014-09-16T17:12:35Z 2014-09-16T17:12:35Z 2016-09-22T20:59:22Z 2014-08 2014-09-16 2014-08 This dissertation explores how tensions between science and superstition were embedded in and constitutive of the visual arts in late nineteenth-century America. By focusing on the work of artists Henry Alexander (1860–94), William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850–1923), and Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861–1948), this project examines the interplay of these ostensibly opposing worldviews in painting. It traces how the interdependence of these terms—which were very much in flux during the era—provided a creative paradigm for negotiating the professionalization of science, the emergent discipline of psychology, new theories of perception and memory, as well as scientific and spiritual efforts to unlock material, psychic, and supernatural worlds broadly. This dissertation reassesses distinctions between so-called realistic and visionary idioms in American art and offers a revised conception of the intersections between art and science in this period. Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2014-07-17T21:28:49Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Thomas_Adam.pdf: 3950652 bytes, checksum: 18be10f6df0736bc6a79cee458346b6b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-16T17:12:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Adam_Thomas.pdf: 3950652 bytes, checksum: 18be10f6df0736bc6a79cee458346b6b (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 64e38d1170ea06062995be4074b65836 (MD5) Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 50511 Lift date: 2016-09-16T17:13:01Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 50511 on 2016-09-22T20:59:22Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50400 en Copyright 2014 Adam M. Thomas art painting science superstition Spiritualism magic psychology Henry Alexander William Merritt Chase Edwin Romanzo Elmer Irving Ramsay Wiles The spectral imagination: American art between science and superstition in the late nineteenth century text Art & Design 1526 Art History 0250 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Art History -UIUC 10KS0250PHD