Main entry:

Novak, Barbara.

Title & Author:

Nature and culture : American landscape and painting, 1825-1875 / Barbara Novak.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

Description:

x, 323 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index.
Introduction: the nationalist garden and the holy book -- Grand opera and the still small voice -- Sound and silence: changing concepts of the sublime -- The geological timetable: rocks -- The meteorological vision: clouds -- The organic foreground: plants -- The primal vision: expeditions -- Man's traces: axe, train, figure -- Arcady revisited: Americans in Italy -- America and Europe: Influence and affinity.
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Summary:

"Studies the work of the Hudson River School artists, the Luminists and other mid-nineteenth century painters of the American landscape, setting the work of these artists into the broadest cultural context."--Amazon.

ISBN:

0195026063
9780195026061
0195029356
9780195029352

Subject:

Landscape painting, American 19th century.
Landscape painting, American.
Peinture de paysages américaine.
Peinture de paysages américaine 19e siècle.
Landschaftsmalerei
Peinture de paysages États-Unis 19e siècle.
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 58689
Call No.: ID PLB; ID:90-B6980
Status: Available