{"product_id":"spirit-hunter-the-haunting-of-american-culture-by-myths-of-violence-speculations-on-jeremy-blakes-winchester-trilogy-9780921972440","title":"Spirit Hunter: The Haunting of American Culture by Myths of Violence: Speculations on Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeremy Blake | Philip Monk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Art Gallery of York University\/The Power Plan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Art Gallery of York University\/The Power Plan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited a fortune in profits from the Winchester Repeating Rifle. She spent the second half of her life building a 160-room Victorian mansion, a construction project designed never to end, as she believed that continuing to build would stave off the ghosts of those killed by Winchester guns. Jeremy Blake's \u003ci\u003eWinchester Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e uses the huge, tangled structure that resulted, the definitive haunted house, to examine the haunting of American culture by violence. \u003ci\u003eSpirit Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e documents and analyzes his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed work--some say Blake has invented a new genre, between video and painting, and interest in his progress intersects a number of fields including art, film and fashion. \u003ci\u003eSpirit Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e also explores such disparate topics as frontier myth, American foreign policy, technology, early film history, psychoanalytic theory and philosophy--all in an accessible narrative style that interweaves art analysis with the story of a mythic haunting that still reverberates today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Gallery of York University\/The Power Plan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47999811256471,"sku":"9780921972440","price":1563.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780921972440.webp?v=1783601806","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/spirit-hunter-the-haunting-of-american-culture-by-myths-of-violence-speculations-on-jeremy-blakes-winchester-trilogy-9780921972440","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}