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Zusatztext "In this wonderfully written, scholarly, and handsomely illustrated work, Bedell examines the fascinating and often surprising intersection of the two disciplines in the nineteenth century." ---Ann Finholt, Ruminator Review Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Bedell is associate professor of art at Wellesley College. She is the author of Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States (Princeton). Klappentext "Rebecca Bedell has unearthed a wealth of new material, and she has produced what will no doubt be the authoritative work on the subject for the foreseeable future. Her well-informed book is a major contribution to the understanding of Hudson River School landscape painting and the complex interrelationship between art and science in mid-nineteenth-century America."--Alan Wallach, The College of William and Mary"I unequivocally and enthusiastically recommend this book. It is an excellent piece of scholarship--thorough, well researched, richly nuanced. It presents an original and persuasive reinterpretation of ideas and images that have long been considered central to American cultural history. The chapters on Cole, Church, and Durand are full of fresh observations and fill in missing connections about the relationship between high culture, popular culture, and the burgeoning science of geology . . . There is no question that this is an important book, and a valuable addition to the study of nineteenth-century American landscape painting."--Gray Sweeney, Arizona State University Zusammenfassung Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. This study of the Hudson River School offers an account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields insights into some of the most influential works of American art and provides an understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and science and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xii Intoduction: The Popularity of Geology 3 Chapter One: Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science 17 Chapter Two: Asher Durand and the Therapeutic Landscape 47 Chapter Three: Frederic Church and the Educational Enterprise 67 Chapter Four: John Kensett, Geology, and Landscape Tourism 85 Chapter Five: William Stanley Haseltine and the Rocks at Nahant 109 Chapter Six: Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys 123 Conclusion 147 Notes 153 Selected Bibliography 171 Index 180 ...
