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Nature and Culture - American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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Nature and Culture - American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty
black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color
insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years,
American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished
ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists,
writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that
God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature
itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of
the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and
periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto
the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert
Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane,
and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling.
Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast
cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of
nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as
its ideal form.
"An impressive achievement."
--Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review
"An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just
an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American
culture as a whole."
--Robert Hughes, Time Magazine
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