Nature and culture : American landscape and painting, 1825-1875
Novak, Barbara1980
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This book is a broad intellectual and cultural study of 19th-century American art, particularly landscape painting. It examines the ways in which Americans of that period saw their landscape, with emphasis on the importance of science, spiritualism, evangelism, the sublime, and transcendentalism. This edition is updated with a new preface.
Main title:
Nature and culture : American landscape and painting, 1825-1875 / Barbara Novak.
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Imprint:
London : Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Collation:
xi,323p. [8]p. of plates : ill(some col), ports. ; 26cm.
Notes:
Also published : New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.Bibliography: p.303-308. _ Includes index.
ISBN:
9780500012451
Dewey class:
758.10973759.13
Local class:
758.10973
Language:
English
BRN:
609867
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