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

"Originally published in 1980, and reissued with an extended preface in 1995, Nature and Culture was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award and was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one the year's...

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1. Verfasser: Novak, Barbara
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ausgabe:3rd ed., with a new preface.
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Zusammenfassung:"Originally published in 1980, and reissued with an extended preface in 1995, Nature and Culture was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award and was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books. The second volume of her trilogy on American art and culture, it describes how the idea of "God in Nature" was rendered by nineteenth-century landscape painters who believed, along with the culture at large, that the glory of God - as shown through America's natural riches - was proof of the nation's providential destiny. Using diaries and letters, as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas the era's thinkers projected onto the American landscape before this idealistic view collapsed from within, under-mined by the Civil War, Darwinism, and a burgeoning technological landscape"--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxix, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.
ISBN:9780198041719
0198041713
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9780195345667
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9780195305869
0195305876
9780195305876
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9781281163141
9781429468923
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9786611163143
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