"Robin Kelsey's "Archive Style" is by far the most stimulating, imaginative, and far-reaching study of nineteenth-century American visual culture I have come across in recent years. Drawing upon a wealth of research as well as recent advances in critical theory, Kelsey persuasively reconstructs the historical conditions that in large measure determined the production and reception of survey imagery."--Alan Wallach, Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies, The College of William and Mary
