false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174332836m/381845.jpg 381845 5 In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine 628353 12 2 2007 Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface total:11|5:3|4:5|3:2|1:1| 11 42 21 1 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 13:18:01 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 13:23:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 17 16:41:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 16:41:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 12 12:48:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 12:49:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 05:57:37 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 05:57:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 09:17:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:17:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 07 17:41:27 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 17:41:27 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:40:12 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 00:40:12 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 10:51:33 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 10:51:33 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Oct 07 13:56:12 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 13:56:15 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Aug 12 11:22:57 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 11:22:57 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 07 19:21:37 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 15:56:31 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun May 25 01:43:39 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 01:43:39 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue May 20 20:21:31 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 11:47:24 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 20:21:31 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Apr 07 09:23:22 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 09:23:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Feb 23 05:14:44 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 05:15:01 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 29 16:26:40 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 16:26:40 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jan 12 07:25:15 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 07:25:15 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jan 01 10:30:13 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 10:30:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 30 09:21:16 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 09:21:16 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Nov 21 01:09:03 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 01:09:03 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=381845