Sanctified landscape writers, artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820-1909

The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schuyler, David (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The tourists' river : experiencing the Hudson Valley
  • The artist's river : Thomas Cole
  • The writers' river : Washington Irving and N.P. Willis
  • The river in a garden : A.J. Downing
  • Change and the search for continuity at midcentury
  • Elegy for the Hudson River School : Jervis McEntee
  • The naturalist's river : John Burroughs
  • A river in time : preserving landscape, celebrating history.