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Yosemite - Art of an American Icon (Paperback)
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Yosemite - Art of an American Icon (Paperback)
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"For Americans of the nineteenth century, Yosemite, like Niagara
Falls, offered a defining natural symbol of American possibilities.
Here, in image and text, is the record of how the painters and
photographers of that era-poised on California peaks in silent
awe-celebrated the Yosemite as place and icon."--Kevin Starr,
Professor of History, University of Southern California
"For 150 years Yosemite Valley has captured the American
imagination through literary description, the photographer's lens,
and the artist's palate. "Yosemite: Art of an American Icon" is a
wonderful, multilayered cultural history of a spectacular American
landscape. This is a story of the beauty of Nature melded with
human perceptions, which tells us much about ourselves as well as
the 'incomparable valley.' It is a spectacular, entertaining
read."--Robert Righter, author of "The Battle over Hetch Hetchy"
"Tracing the dynamic interconnections between art, nature, and
commerce that transformed Yosemite into one of the most powerful
and popular icons of wilderness in American culture, "Yosemite: Art
of an American Icon" is a one-of-a-kind volume that graphically
probes and exposes our ambivalent cultural love affair with
pristine wilderness. Not only does it provide a nuanced and
comprehensive survey of the art of Yosemite, but it also encourages
us to critically examine our contradictory desire for Yosemite to
be both untouched natural preserve and sought-after tourist
destination."--Marguerite S. Shaffer, Director of American Studies,
Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Miami
University, Oxford Ohio
"As Amy Scott puts it in her introduction: "In Yosemite, visitors
encounter nature butsee a work of art." For us to see nature it
must be turned into a landscape, a work of art, but always then
what we see is the work of art. It is this paradox that the book so
skillfully elucidates, in a major contribution that places the
visual creation of Yosemite at the heart of western studies,
American art, and the role of wilderness in modern urban society.
Scott and her colleagues do a magnificent job of capturing
Yosemite's significance and its hard realities and complexities,
synthesizing current research on the development of Yosemite, and
extending that research in many fruitful directions. And the book
is beautifully written and illustrated."--Bruce Robertson,
University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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