In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak d...
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Aug 24, 2009
Christina
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Once you get past the too-theoretical new introduction, this is a useful, thought-provoking analysis of 19th-century American landscape painting, especially worth reading in the Darwin centennial year. I liked her "iconographic" approach (chapters on rocks, clouds, plants) and her chapter on American artists in Italy.
Apr 14, 2010
Elizabeth
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Novak is the doyenne of American landscape painting, and this intro is extremely well-organized and well-written--anyone interested in the 19th c., the West, and/or 19th c. literature and philosophy would benefit from reading this book.
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