Picturing the Americas: landscape painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

"By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into d...

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Other Authors: Brownlee, Peter John (Editor), Piccoli, Valéria (Editor), Uhlyarik, Georgiana (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario 2015
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Online Access:DE-255
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Summary:"By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940. The book includes works by U.S. artists Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Georgia O'Keeffe; Canadian artists Joseph Légaré, Frances Anne Hopkins, and Lawren Harris; Mexico's José María Velasco, Uruguay's Joaquín Torres-García, and Brazil's Tarsila do Amaral, among many others. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents"--Publisher's description
Item Description:Catalog of a touring exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario from June 20, 2015 to September 20, 2015; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from November 5, 2015 to January 18, 2016; and at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil from February 27, 2016 to May 29, 2016
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (280 Seiten) 236 color Illustrationen
ISBN:0300265832
9780300265835
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00273

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