| Description |
xi, 323 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the nationalist garden and the holy book -- Grand opera and the still small voice -- Sound and silence: changing concepts of the sublime -- The geological timetable: rocks -- The meteorological vision: clouds -- The organic foreground: plants -- The primal vision: expeditions -- Man's traces: axe, train, figure -- Arcady revisited: Americans in Italy -- America and Europe: Influence and affinity. |
| Summary |
"Studies the work of the Hudson River School artists, the Luminists and other mid-nineteenth century painters of the American landscape, setting the work of these artists into the broadest cultural context."--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Landscape painting, American.
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Landscape painting, American -- 19th century.
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Landscape painting, American. (OCoLC)fst00991960
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| ISBN |
0195026063 |
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