Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Looking Askance 1. Mumler's Fraudulent Photographs 2. Eakins's Reality Effects 3. Impressionism and Nature's Deceptions 4. Touching Pictures by William Harnett 5. Buffalo's Illusions 6. The Self's Deceptions 7. Humbugs for Highbrows: Duchamp's Readymades in New York Notes Index
Michael Leja is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (1993).
"An illuminating study...[it] will undoubtedly prompt many readers to reconsider American culture at the turn of the twentieth century in light of his manifold discoveries." - Cecile Whiting, Caa Reviews "A brilliant new reading of Duchamp's reception that is likely to become the definitive account of the American response to the Armory Show. In its visual acuity, historical specificity, and interdisciplinary range, as well as in its careful attention to transatlantic cultural differences, Leja's study provides an indispensable model for future scholarship in American modernism and American art more generally." - Artforum / Bookforum "Michael Leja, one of our most original and acute historians of American art, has written an indispensable and lively study of what we might call the modern anxiety of seeing. He traces our inherently skeptical view of the world back to the turn of the last century, a golden age of hucksters, swindlers, quacks, humbugs, rascals, cheats, and confidence men, and shows how artists as diverse as Eakins and Duchamp fit into this new culture of suspicion. Leja's book breathes fresh life into the period." - Michael Kimmelman"
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