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Narrating the Landscape - Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Narrating the Landscape - Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
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The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined
to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly
dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented
territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its
most sweeping visual equivalent in the period's landscape
paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age's defining
features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual
material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology.
Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature,
reports of geological surveys, ethnographic studies: all of these
new print vehicles brought new meanings to the interplay of time,
space, and place as American continental expansion peaked.
Instrumental to that project of national and industrial growth,
these commercial and scientific publications introduced readers,
travelers, and citizens to a changing North American landscape made
more accessible by new travel routes blazed between 1825 and 1875.
More fundamentally, as Johnston shows in his nuanced analysis, by
simulating new temporal frameworks through their presentation of
landscape, these print materials established new models of
consumption and new kinds of knowledge critical to expansion.
Johnston relates these sources to traditional art historical
subjects - the landscapes of the Hudson River school, luminist
paintings by John Kensett and William Trost Richards, Native
portraits painted by George Catlin, and photographs by Timothy
O'Sullivan - to show how key discourses associated with expansion
shifted away from picturesque strategies pairing imagery and
narrative toward entirely new forms that gave temporal structure to
viewers' experience of an emerging modernity. Revealing the crucial
role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century
United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into
the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.
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