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The anatomy of nature : geology & American landscape painting, 1825-1875 / Rebecca Bedell.
Author
Bedell, Rebecca Bailey
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Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Description
xiii, 185 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 28 cm
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Landscape painting, American
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19th century
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Geology in art
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Summary note
"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 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 resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas." "This 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."--Jacket.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
Machine generated contents note: PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: The Popularity of Geology Chapter One: Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science Chapter Two: Asher Durand and the Therapeutic Landscape Chapter Three: Frederic Church and the Educational Enterprise Chapter Four: John Kensett, Geology, and Landscape Tourism Chapter Five: William Stanley Haseltine and the Rocks at Nahant Chapter Six: Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys Conclusion NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-179) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Popularity of Geology
Ch. 1. Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science
Ch. 2. Asher Durand and the Therapeutic Landscape
Ch. 3. Frederic Church and the Educational Enterprise
Ch. 4. John Kensett, Geology, and Landscape Tourism
Ch. 5. William Stanley Haseltine and the Rocks at Nahant
Ch. 6. Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys.
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ISBN
0691074631 ((hardcover))
9780691074634 ((hardcover))
0691102910 ((paperback))
9780691102917 ((paperback))
LCCN
00068691
OCLC
45575683
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