Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-75 - Tapa blanda

*Praise for the first edition: Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books"An impressive achievement."--The New York Times Book Review *Praise for the first edition: Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books "An impressive achievement."--The New York Times Book Review *Praise for the first edition: Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books"An impressive achievement."--The New York Times Book Review *Praise for the first edition: Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books "An impressive achievement."--The New York Times Book Review *Praise for the first edition: Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Nonfiction Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one the year's ten best books"An impressive achievement."--The New York Times Book Review

This is a broad intellectual and cultural study of a main theme in 19th-century American art - landscape painting. It examines the ways - popular, philosophical, ethical and aesthetic - 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.