Burns, Sarah

Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. She is the author of "Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America" (UC Press), "Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America", and "Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture." John Davis is Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College. He is the author of "The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture."