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The end of landscape in nineteenth-century America / Maggie M. Cao.
Fine Arts Library ND1351.5 .C36 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cao, Maggie M., 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bierstadt, Albert.
- Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Heade, Martin Johnson.
- Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Church, Frederic Edwin.
- Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blakelock, Ralph Albert.
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921--Criticism and interpretation.
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sargent, John Singer.
- Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902.
- Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919.
- Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900.
- Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921.
- Landscape painting, American--19th century.
- Landscape painting, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 261 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Focusing on the unorthodox artworks of four painters--Albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, Ralph Blakelock, and Abbott Thayer--Maggie M. Cao proposes a new way of thinking about these artists' unexpected interventions and how they challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre's unsettling limits, Cao shows that landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity and was the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface : What end?
- Introduction : inventions and failures
- Closure : Albert Bierstadt's last pictures
- Sabotage : Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Church
- Insolvency : Ralph Blakelock's economic accretion
- Camouflage : Abbott Thayer and John Singer Sargent
- Afterword : un-landing landscape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520291423
- 0520291425
- OCLC:
- 1005686231
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