American Sublime

Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

Andrew Wilton, Tim Barringer (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2002
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09670-4 (ISBN)

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The painters who came to be known as the Hudson River School--Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others--found inspiration in our young country's natural wonders and were the first to paint many of its still-wild vistas. As America was settled and the wilderness receded, their successors--most notably Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran--carried their quest for the sublime to the Far West, communicating its breathtaking grandeur in brilliant views of Rocky Mountain peaks, roaring waterfalls, and vast canyons. Within a single generation these artists established the dramatic approach to American landscape painting that is celebrated in this stirringly beautiful book. The freshness of their vision, the intensity of their invention, and the energy of their execution were all born of the urgency these artists sensed in the life of America itself. Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, American Sublime rejoices in America the Beautiful as seen in some of the country's most glorious landscape paintings.
It contains a fully illustrated catalogue of all the paintings in the exhibition, with more than one hundred color plates, including three gatefolds. Biographies of the artists are included, and thoughtful and elegantly written essays cast new light on their ambitions and achievements. The lucid text places American landscape painting in the context of the international art world and of the European landscape tradition. And it explores ideas of national identity and empire in America, looking in particular at how these landscapes, whether real or imagined, reflect Americans' hopes and fears for their country. As a tribute to some of our most important American artists and the land that inspired them, this stunningly illustrated book will have a deep and wide appeal.

Andrew Wilton is former Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at the Tate Gallery. He is the author of The Swagger Portrait and the editor of Grand Tour and The Age of Rossetti. Tim Barringer is Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale University. He is coeditor of Colonialism and the Object and Reading the Pre-Raphaelites.

Forward 7 Acknowledgments 9 ANDREW WILTON: The Subline in the Old World and the New 10 TIM BARRINGER: The Course of Empires: Landscape and Identity in America and Britain, 1820-1880 38 ANDREW WILTON AND TIM BARRINGER: Catalogue 1. Wilderness 66 2. The Course of Empire 86 3. The Still Small Voice 114 4. "Awful Grandeur" 132 5. Painting from nature 156 6. A Transcendental Vision 186 7. Explorations 216 8. The Great West 228 GRAHAM C. BOETTCHER Biographies of the Artists 252 Notes 262 Bibliography 272 Lenders and Credits 278 Index 279

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2002
Zusatzinfo	113 color plates. 3 gatefolds. 47 halftones
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 292 mm
Gewicht	1985 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-691-09670-8 / 0691096708
ISBN-13	978-0-691-09670-4 / 9780691096704
Zustand	Neuware