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Book The Anatomy of Nature

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  • Author : Rebecca Bedell
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-14
  • ISBN : 0691268231
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Anatomy of Nature written by Rebecca Bedell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of the interplay between science, religion, and nature in nineteenth-century landscape painting Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied geology. Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John F. Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape elements resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas. Rebecca Bedell contributes to current debates about the relationship among art, science, and religion by exploring this phenomenon. She shows that at a time when many geologists sought to disentangle their science from religion, American artists generally sidestepped the era's more materialist science, particularly Darwinism. They favored a conservative, Christianized geology that promoted scientific study as a way to understand God. Their art was both shaped by and sought to preserve this threatened version of the science. And, through their art, they advanced consequential social developments, including westward expansion, scenic tourism, the emergence of a therapeutic culture, and the creation of a coherent and cohesive national identity. This major study of the Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh insights into some of the most influential works of American art and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and between science and religion, in the nineteenth century. It will draw a broad audience of art historians, Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the American natural landscape.

Book A Collection Rediscovered

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  • Author : George S. Keyes
  • Publisher : Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book A Collection Rediscovered written by George S. Keyes and published by Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This book was released on 1986 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yosemite and Sequoia

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  • Author : Richard J. Orsi
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520339878
  • Pages : 525 pages

Download or read book Yosemite and Sequoia written by Richard J. Orsi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves. This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks. As the essays remind us, the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised first in Yosemite nearly a century ago. Yosemite's significance in landscape art, its role in the development of western tourism, and its promotion as one of the great icons of American culture are among the other major themes discussed here.

Book Antiques

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alexis Jean Fournier  the Last American Barbizon

Download or read book Alexis Jean Fournier the Last American Barbizon written by Rena Neumann Coen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kansas Quarterly

Download or read book Kansas Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David Ericson  Always Returning

Download or read book David Ericson Always Returning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book documenting Ericson's life and work. Essays by Thomas O'Sullivan with an interview of Frances McGiffert by Curator Peter Spooner.This catalogue is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth Aug. 28, 2005 - Jan. 15, 2006

Book Deutsch Amerikanische Maler in Wisconsin

Download or read book Deutsch Amerikanische Maler in Wisconsin written by Peter C. Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Mainstream

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  • Author : Rena Neumann Coen
  • Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book In the Mainstream written by Rena Neumann Coen and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renewal of interest in representational art will bring Fournier to a new generation. Full-color paintings.

Book The Official Museum Directory  1992

Download or read book The Official Museum Directory 1992 written by and published by National Register Publishing. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Capital Image

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  • Author : Andrew J. Cosentino
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Capital Image written by Andrew J. Cosentino and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1983 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landmarks of Early California Painting

Download or read book Landmarks of Early California Painting written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insiders  Guide   to Twin Cities

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Twin Cities written by Jason Gabler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Twin Cities is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities and the surrounding environs.

Book Charles Warren Eaton  1857 1937

Download or read book Charles Warren Eaton 1857 1937 written by Maureen C. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horizon

Download or read book Horizon written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: