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Thomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature Association A
Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the
materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural
significance of landscape to reassess the value of print, to locate
the sites where stories resonate, and to listen to western women's
voices. From foundational California photographers Anne Brigman and
Alma Lavenson to contemporary Native poets and writers Leslie
Marmon Silko and Joy Harjo, women artists have used photographs to
generate stories and to map routes across time and place. A
Planetary Lens illuminates the richness and theoretical
sophistication of such composite texts. Looking beyond the
ideologies of wilderness, migration, and progress that have shaped
settler and popular conceptions of the region, A Planetary Lens
shows how many artists gather and assemble images and texts to
reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U.S. West. Based
on extensive research into the production, publication, and
circulation of women's photo-texts, A Planetary Lens offers a fresh
perspective on the entangled and gendered histories of western
American photography and literature and new models for envisioning
regional relations.
The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a
genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural
philosophy through the development of the protoecological concept
of 'the oeconomy of nature'. Founded in 1644 by Kenelm Digby, this
concept was subsequently employed by a number of theologians,
physicians, and natural philosophers to conceptualize nature as an
interdependent system. Focusing on the middle decades of the
seventeenth century, Peter Remien examines how Samuel Gott, Walter
Charleton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Collins, and Thomas Burnet formed
the oeconomy of nature. Remien also shows how literary authors Ben
Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and
John Milton use the discourse of oeconomy to explore the contours
of humankind's relationship with the natural world. This book
participates in an intellectual history of the science of ecology
while prompting a re-evaluation of how we understand the
relationship between literature and ecology in the early modern
period.
Planting a tree is an act of faith, an expression of hope. The Five
Acre Forest inspires that hope. In transit from the globe-trotting
life of an aid worker, Trish Nicholson came upon an eroded dune
beside a lake in New Zealand's far north and felt a strange
attachment. The following year, she abandoned her Celtic roots and
returned to plant a thousand trees. Twenty years on, the author
shares the physical and emotional trials and triumphs of
transforming the dune into a five acre forest, and describes the
lives of its native trees, birds and insects, enchanting us with
local legends and her nature photography along the way. Woven into
Nicholson's personal narrative is the deep-time story of an
extraordinary landscape of dunes, lakes, swamps and beaches formed
from an ancient shared geological ancestry. Heel-on-spade nature
writing that is also lyrical, passionate and full of wonder'
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Frederic Church, the acclaimed Hudson River School artist, first
traveled to Maine in 1850. Over the next decades Church ventured
repeatedly from his New York State home, Olana, to explore the
Maine coast and its rocky islands. He also frequently trekked
inland to visit Mount Katahdin. Maine provided sensational sunsets,
robust waves crashing on rocky shores, and an abundance of
wilderness well suited to Church's artistic vision.
Maine Sublime brings together all of the artwork in the Olana
collection resulting from and inspired by Church s travels, from
finished oil sketches that Church selected to mount, frame, and
display at his home to pencil sketches and cartoons that he stored
in portfolios. The subjects include such specific locations as
Sunset Bar Harbor (1854) and works like Sunset (ca. 1852 65) and
Twilight a Sketch (1858), which were inspired by dramatic Maine
skies and are evocative of the region as a whole. Throughout his
life, Church would continue to visit Maine, sketching, fishing, and
hiking. In 1878 he bought land on Lake Millinocket with a view of
Katahdin and built a simple cabin. After Church s marriage in 1860,
his wife Isabel often joined his excursions to Maine. In a witty
cartoon included in this catalog, Frederic and Isabel Church on
Mount Desert Island, Church captures his wife s admiration of the
scenery.
Maine Sublime accompanies an exhibit of Church s Maine artwork
that will be displayed at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland,
Maine) from June to September, 2012; the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston from February to May 2013; and the Evelyn and Maurice Sharp
Gallery at Olana (Hudson, New York) from July to October,
2013."
Sophie Corrigan evokes everyone's inner zoologist in this
charmingly illustrated and wittily worded menagerie. Each critter
featured in this fun book is tagged with totally fictitious yet
comically accurate anatomical labels, from a tree frog's "clingy
jazz hands" and a raccoon's "sneaky bandito mask" to a
velociraptor's "disembowly prowlies" and many more. Rife with
animal puns, eye-catching bonus art, interesting animal facts, and
laugh-out-loud labels that beg to be shared, Animal Anatomy will
bring smiles to animal lovers of all ages.
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