The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29142-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 263 mm x 189 mm, Gewicht: 922 g

The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that 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—landscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flight—Cao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cao, Maggie M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Natur & Tiere (Stillleben, Landschaften etc.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments • ix
Prologue: What End? • 1
Introduction: Inventions and Failures • 9
PART I
1. Closure: Albert Bierstadt’s Last Pictures • 31
2. Sabotage: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Church • 68
PART II
3. Insolvency: Ralph Blakelock’s Economic Accretion • 113
4. Camouflage: Abbott Handerson Thayer and John Singer Sargent • 153
Afterword: Un-landing Landscape • 199
Notes • 207
List of Illustrations • 247

Über Autor(innen)

Maggie M. Cao is David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.