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"[A] fascinating and indispensable book."-Christopher Knight, Los
Angeles Times Best Books of 2018-The Guardian Gold Medal for
Contribution to Publishing, 2019 California Book Awards Carleton
Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American
photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most
influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of
Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias.
Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove
in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of
Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as
news of the Union's disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing
in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio's horrific
photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins's work tied the West
to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging
the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins's pictures,
Congress would pass legislation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, that
preserved Yosemite as the prototypical "national park," the first
such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins:
Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of
the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian
Hans Huth's landmark 1948 "Yosemite: The Story of an Idea."
Watkins's photographs helped shape America's idea of the West, and
helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures
of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day
Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire
landscapes to America but were important to the development of
American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and
science. Watkins's clients, customers, and friends were a veritable
"who's who" of America's Gilded Age, and his connections with
notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie
Benton Fremont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir,
Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped
make today's America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh
archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didn't just
reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling
of Watkins's story will fascinate anyone interested in American
history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development
of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics.
Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American
landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature urges Americans
to value and immerse themselves in their country's landscape, to
build American culture from America's nature. Nearly two centuries
after the original publication of the essay Nature by Emerson, this
captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings
together a selection of artistic works in dialog with Emerson's
text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take
on Nature through new research into how the essay was informed by
Emerson's experiences of art and, in turn, how it informed American
art well into the twentieth century. The result is a unique melding
of essay, art, and ideas that will draw new readers to Emerson's
writings, while also introducing a fresh perspective on a critical
contribution to the American canon and showing what impact
Emerson's text still has for the US to this day.
"A fascinating and indispensable book."-Christopher Knight, Los
Angeles Times Best Books of 2018-The Guardian Gold Medal for
Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton
Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American
photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most
influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of
Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias.
Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove
in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of
Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as
news of the Union's disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing
in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio's horrific
photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins's work tied the West
to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging
the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins's pictures,
Congress would pass legislation, later signed by Abraham Lincoln,
that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical "national park," the
first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton
Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the
birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental
historian Hans Huth's landmark 1948 "Yosemite: The Story of an
Idea." Watkins's photographs helped shape America's idea of the
West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation.
His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as
modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced
entire landscapes to America but were important to the development
of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and
science. Watkins's clients, customers, and friends were a veritable
"who's who" of America's Gilded Age, and his connections with
notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie
Benton Fremont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir,
Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped
make today's America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh
archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didn't just
reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling
of Watkins's story will fascinate anyone interested in American
history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development
of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics.
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David Maisel; Text written by Geoff Manaugh, William Fox, Tyler Green, Katie Lee-Koven
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