Index
Adams, John, 73
Alberti, Leon Battista, xvi, 16, 18, 26, 48, 49; De pictura, 46, 47, 60; De re aedificatoria, 46; oratory and, 46
Alpers, Svetlana: The Art of Describing, 49–50
Altdorfer, Albrecht, 48
Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre, 56, 57
ars historica, 57–58
Atlantic world: as analytical category, ix–x; sound and, xii–xiii, xv; visual representation and, x–xii, xv
aural imagination, xiii–xv, 34, 157, 158
Barlaeus, Caspar, xvi, 158; as humanist historian, 56–57; Mauritius redux, 57, 170n61; Rerum per octennium in Brasilia . . . historia, 36, 37, 40, 43, 54–59, 60
Barraud, François: His Master’s Voice, 144
beautiful words, 22, 24, 32. See also Land-without-Evil
Bellion, Wendy, 89
Benjamin, Walter, 32
Berger, John, 171n74
Berliner, Emile, 144, 148, 149, 151
Bernard, Jean Frédéric: Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, 10
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, xv
Big Foot, 133
Black Maria studio, 126, 127, 129, 140, 141
Blount, Thomas: Glossographia, 48
Boas, Frans: “On Alternating Sounds,” 148
Böhme, Jakob, 74
Borgia, Rodrigo. See Alexander VI
Borgia apartments. See Pinturicchio
Botticelli, Sandro, 16
Brooklyn Museum, 155
Bryant, William Cullen, 123–24
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, xviii, 126, 127, 135–36, 140, 149, 154; Wounded Knee and, 137–38, 185n31
Bureau of Ethnology (Smithsonian), 147, 148, 152
Burke, John, 139
camp-meetings, 114, 115, 118; Cane Ridge revival, 113, 120; picturesque aspects, 115–17; sublime aspects, 121; vulgarity of, 117, 121
caraïbes, 2, 4–5, 6, 9, 22, 23
Casey, Edward S., 104
Chamberlin, Mason, 67; Benjamin Franklin, xvii, 64, 67–68, 70–71, 78–80, 84, 86–87, 97
Chelsum, James, 95
Chion, Michel, xiv
Cicero, 46
cinema. See film
cinema of attraction, 128–29
Clastres, Hélène, 22
Cody, William F. See Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Cole, Thomas, xiii, xvii–xviii; art history and, 100–102; “The Bewilderment,” 108; Camp Meeting at Night, 115; cave imagery, 107–12; dissenting tradition and, 122; Elijah at the Mouth of the Cave, 111–12; “Essay on American Scenery,” 107, 112, 117–18; Garden of Eden, 108; Kaaterskill Falls, xvii–xviii, 102–13, 121, 124, 178n13, 178n15; Landscape Composition, St. John in the Wilderness, 118; list of ideas for paintings, 113, 115, 117; religious revivals and, 115, 117, 121–22, 180n42; View from Mount Holyoke, 102, 104; The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 108
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan, 108
Collinson, Peter, 79
Columbus, Christopher, 6, 14, 15, 16
Constable, John, 52; The Hay Wain, 52–53
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Pioneers, 104, 106–7
Correr, Gregorio, 47
Cox, Francis, 120
cult of nature, 121
Dalibard, Thomas-François, 96
dance: buffalo, 127, 133–35; circular, xvi, 6–10, 26, 157; around the golden calf, 7–9; morris, 9; Omaha war, 127–28, 133–35, 183n5; pagan aspects, 7–10, 16, 18; Reformation critiques of, 9; Tapuya, 33–34; Tupinambá, 1–6, 18, 19, 21–22, 24, 26, 32. See also Ghost Dance
Daneau, Lambert: Traité des danses, 9
Dati, Giuliano, 14
de Brosses, Charles: Du culte des dieux fétiches, 92
de Bry, Theodor, xvi, 34, 127; America, 2, 9, 19–21, 22, 24, 26–27, 28–30; deer hunt (engraving), 29–30; as Protestant publisher, 20–21, 24; Tupinambá dance (engraving), 2, 3–6, 23–24, 26–27, 32–33; Virginia dance (engraving), 9–10
de Certeau, Michel, xiii, 2, 113
Delbourgo, James, 70
Dickson, Antonia. See Dickson, William Kennedy-Laurie
Dickson, William Kennedy-Laurie, 126; History of the Kinetograph, 127, 131, 140, 141–42, 183n3
distant view, 26–27, 40–41, 99–100, 106–7, 124, 157
Dublin Group. See mezzotints
Durand, Asher: Kindred Spirits, 123–24
Eckhout, Albert, 33, 36, 37, 39; Tapuya Dance, 33–34, 60
Edison, Thomas, xiii–xiv, xvii, 125, 130, 141, 145–46. See also Dickson, William Kennedy-Laurie
electrical demonstrations, 70, 74, 78, 80–83; dangers of, 83–84. See also magical picture
Eliade, Mircea, 71
Elliott, J. H., 41
Elliott, Michael, 153
eloquentia, 57
enthusiasm, xvii, 74, 77–78. See also religious revivals
Farther, and more terrible Warnings from God, 63
Fernandes, Vasco: Adoration of the Magi, 16, 56
Fernsicht. See distant view
fetish, 89, 92, 94, 100; commodity, 96
Figure des Brisilians, 31–32
film: enchantment and, xi, 140–41; sound synchronization and, xiii–xiv, xviii, 130, 141–42, 144–46. See also kinetoscope
Finney, Charles Grandison, 118, 120, 121
Flaherty, Robert, x, xiv. See also Nanook of the North
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de: Histoire des oracles, 92
Forestier, Amédée: Ghost Dance of the Sioux Indians, 135, 137
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré: Au Génie de Franklin, 67
Franklin, Benjamin, xvii, 64, 67, 157; experimental activities, 64, 80, 81, 83; Experiments and Observations on Electricity, 64, 73, 79; Fisher mezzotint and, 96; portraits of, 64, 67, 171n6; printing activities, 77, 78; technological modernity and, 85–86. See also magical picture
Franklin, Deborah, 80
Freke, John, 73–74
Friar, Natasha, 130
Friar, Ralph, 130
Gainsborough, Thomas, 52
Gaisberg, Fred, 151
Ghost Dance, xviii, 131; Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and, 135–36, 137–39; among Lakota, 131, 132–33, 135, 137; James Mooney and, 146–48, 149, 151–54; press coverage of, 131, 134–35, 137; Sioux Ghost Dance, 131; suppression of, 133, 139, 154. See also Wovoka
God’s Terrible Doings are to be Observed, 63
gramophone, x–xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 144, 145, 148, 149, 153. See also phonograph
graphophone. See phonograph
Great Awakening, xvii, 63, 77, 78
grotteschi. See under Pinturicchio
Guild of St. Luke (Haarlem), 36, 166n11
Harriot, Thomas: Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 9, 20
Hegel, G. W. F., 100
Heidegger, Martin, x
Herrera, Antonio de: Historia general, 20
heterology, xiii
Historia naturalis Brasiliae, 36
Hochstrasser, Julie, 53, 170n56
humanism: Dutch art and, 49–50; history-writing and, 57–58; oratory and, 46, 57–58
Huygens, Constantijn, 34
Inter caetera, 16
Kaaterskill Falls: in Cooper’s Pioneers, 104, 106–7; kinetoscope and, 127, 183n3; as tourist destination, 106, 178n16
kinetograph. See kinetoscope
kinetophone, 142, 144, 145. See also kinetoscope
kinetoscope, xviii, 125, 154–55; parlor at 1155 Broadway, 125, 126; Sioux Ghost Dance, xviii, 131, 140, 141, 144, 146, 149, 184n14; sound reproduction and, 141–42, 144–46, 186n46; as war machine, 129–30, 140. See also Dickson, William Kennedy-Laurie; Edison, Thomas
Kinnersley, Ebenezer: electrical demonstrations, 70, 78, 80, 81–82, 87; preaching, 77
Kircher, Athanasius, xv
Kneller, Godfrey: King George II, 87
Lakota: assimilationist policy and, 132–33; in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 126, 139, 154–55; in early film, 127–30
landscape: art history and, 50, 52–53, 62, 100–102, 124; boredom and, 39, 44; British, nineteenth-century, 50, 52–53; exoticism and, 37–38; mood and, 100; as parergon, 48, 58; as pastoral retreat, 44–45; silence of, xvi, 41–43, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52–53, 59, 62; van Mander on, 49
Land-without-Evil, 22
Larsen, Erik, 40
Latour, Bruno, x
Law, William, 74
Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 28–29
Léry, Jean de, xvi; as Calvinist missionary, 1; Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil, 1–6, 9, 18–19, 21–22, 23–24, 27, 32; as Protestant author, 21, 23–24
Lessing, G. E.: Laocoön, xiv, xv
lightning: divine aspects, xvii, 63–64, 70–73, 74, 77; experimentalism and, 64, 67, 70–71, 73, 77, 78–81, 83–84; Hopi snake dance and, 85–86; iconography of, 71–72, 172n14; limits of representation and, 84–85, 97
Livy, 57
Louis XIV, 37
Lucretius: De rerum natura, 71
Ludwell, Philip, III, 67
Luther, Martin, 21
magical picture, xvii, 87, 89, 92, 94; art history and, 96–97
Mantegna, Andrea: San Zeno altarpiece, 47–48, 58
maraca, 4–5, 6, 19, 21, 22–24, 28
Marcgraf, Georg, 36
Marryat, Frederick, 117, 121, 122
Martin, Benjamin, 73–74
Marx, Karl, 96
Maryland Historical Society, xiv
Mather, Cotton, 72–73
Maurits, Johan, 33, 34, 35, 37; in Barlaeus’s Historia, 54–56, 57, 58, 59; military endeavors, 35, 44, 45; as patron, 35–36, 39, 54
Mauritshuis (The Hague), 34, 36, 45
Maus, Marion P., 137
McArdell, James, 95
mechanical objectivity, 148
Medici, Catherine de’, 30
mezzotints, 94–96
Michaud, Philippe-Alain, 140
Milbert, Jacques Gérard, 115
Miller, Perry, 121
Modern Constitution, x–xi. See also Latour, Bruno
Monk, Samuel, 121
Montaigne, Michel de: “Of Cannibals,” 28
Mooney, James: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, 146, 151–54; phonograph, use of, 147–48, 149, 151, 154, 186n50; at World’s Columbian Exposition, 149
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 148
Muybridge, Eadweard, 141
Nanook of the North, x–xi, xii, xiii, xiv
National Museum of American Art, 102
near vision, 99
Niagara Falls, 104–5; kinetoscope and, 127, 183n3; revivalism and, 118, 120–21
Noble, Louis Legrand, 123
No Neck, Johnny Burke, 133, 141, 183n5
Norris, Frank: McTeague, 155, 188n66
Panofsky, Erwin, 26
paragone, 27
parergon. See landscape
Peale, Charles Willson: Benjamin Franklin, 171n6; Staircase Group, 89
Petrarch, Francesco, 26
phonograph, 141, 142, 144, 145; as anthropological tool, 148–49, 151. See also gramophone
Picart, Bernard: frontispiece to Histoire des oracles, 92; Le grand sacrifice des Canadiens à Quitchi-Manitou, 10–11
Piccolomini Library, 14–15
Pinchbeck, William, 94
Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto): Borgia apartment frescoes, 11, 13–18, 20; grotteschi, 14–15, 18
Piso, Willem, 36
Plante, Franciscus: Mauritiados, 36
Plato: Republic, 107, 108, 111
Pliny the Elder: Natural History, 48, 84
Post, Frans, xvi, 35–36, 44, 50, 157; Fort Ceulen on the Rio Grande (etching), 54–56; Fort Maurits on the shore of the São Francisco River (etching), 54, 58, 59; The Ox Cart, 53; São Francisco River, 40–42, 45, 48, 50, 53, 54, 60, 62, 168n27; View of Fort Ceulen, 38–39, 43, 50; View of Itamaracá, 37, 40; View of Olinda Cathedral, 37–38, 53
Post, Pieter, 36
Powell, John Wesley, 147, 148, 152–53
Priestley, Joseph: The History and Present State of Electricity, 73, 81, 83–84
Protogenes, 48
Quintilian, 46
“Red Men Again Conquered,” 129–30, 131, 140
religious revivals. See camp meetings; Great Awakening; Second Great Awakening
Remington, Frederic: The Ghost Dance of the Ogallala Sioux, 137
Reynolds, Joshua, 95
Richmann, Georg Wilhelm, 84
Rider, Alexander: Camp Meeting, 118
Riegl, Alois, 39–40, 49, 99–100, 101, 107, 157, 177n5
Roach, Joseph, 95
Roberts, Jennifer, xii
Rouen, royal entry, 30–32
Rowland, John, 77
Royal Academy of Arts, 67
Sadeler, Jan: Dance around the Golden Calf, 7, 8, 26, 162n14
Saint Francis of Assisi, xv
salvage ethnography, 148
San Damiano Crucifix, xv
Schaffer, Simon, 73
Schmidt, Leigh Eric, xii
Scipio Africanus, 57
Second Great Awakening, xvii, 113–15, 121, 122; scholarly assessment of, 114. See also camp meetings
Simonides of Ceos, xiv
Sinner’s Thundering Warning-Piece, The, 63
Sioux Ghost Dance. See under kinetoscope
sound: art history and, xiii, xv, 6, 35, 157–58; of camp meetings, 114, 115, 117, 120, 121, 122; ethnology and, 2; of Kaaterskill Falls, 103, 104–6, 107, 111, 113, 121, 123–24; kinetoscope and, xiii–xiv, 141–42, 144–46; landscape and, 99, 102–3, 112; sound studies, xii–xiii; speaking pictures, xiv–xv, 34–35, 96; thunder, 63–64, 73; of Tupinambá dance, 2, 4–6, 21–24, 32. See also aural imagination
Sousa, John Phillip, 151
Staden, Hans: Warhaftige Historia, 22–23
stadtholder. See Hendrik, Frekerik
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Catskill), 123, 182n66
Tacitus, 57
Tennent, Gilbert, 63–64, 70, 77, 96; All Things Come Alike to All, 63–64; The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 77
Thevet, André, 164n49
Thirty Years’ War, 44
thunder house, 80–81
Timucuans, 28–29
Trollope, Frances, 115–17, 121, 122
Trumbull, John, 103, 104, 107, 122, 178n14; Niagara Falls, 104–5
Tupinambá, xvi, 1–6, 16, 19, 21–24, 30–32
van Brosterhuyzen, Jan, 54, 170n57
van Ceulen, Matthias, 43
van de Velde, Esaias, 36
van Goyen, Jan, 36
Vanhaelen, Angela, 40
van Leyden, Lucas: Worship of the Golden Calf, 7–8
van Mander, Karel: Schilder-Boeck, 44, 49
van Musschenbroek, Pieter, 83
van Ruysdael, Salomon, 36
Vaucanson, Jacques: mechanical duck, 87, 89, 175n55
Vermeer, Johannes: Art of Painting, 50, 59; View of Delft, 45–46
Villegagnon, Nicolas Durand, 1
Voltaire, 89
Vossius, Gerardus Joannes, 57; Ars historica, 57; De quatuor artibus popularibus, 58
Vrints, Joan Baptista, 7
Wadsworth, Daniel, 103, 104, 108, 118, 122
Wagener, Zacharias, 39
Wall, William Guy: Kaaterskill Falls, 109
Wallach, Alan, 122
Warburg, Aby, 16, 18, 85–87, 130
Weschler, Lawrence: “Inventing Peace,” 45–46
Wesley, John, 114
West India Company (WIC), xvi, 35, 43, 44
Whatley, Janet, 19
White, John, 20
Whitefield, George, 78, 113–14
Wilson, Benjamin, 64; Benjamin Franklin, 64, 67
Wilson, Fred, xiv–xv
Wilson, Richard, 52
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 16
Wolf, Bryan Jay, 100–101
Wood, Christopher, 48
World’s Columbian Exposition, 149
Wounded Knee, xviii, 131, 133, 137, 138–39
Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, 45–46
Zincgref, Julius Wilhelm: Emblematum ethico-politicorum centuria, 72
Zoöpraxiscope, 141