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OverviewThe impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaretta M. Lovell (Professor, University of California, Berkeley)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 2.064kg ISBN: 9780271092782ISBN 10: 0271092785 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 25 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is an American art history that in its depth of research and its absolute assurance in method and goals matches or surpasses anything done by any global modernist art historian today. It is a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century world history in visual and material studies, and will be of interest to anyone looking at the formation of global modernism, technologies, and capital markets.” —Bruce Robertson, coauthor of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction “Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far the most insightful study of Lane and his art to date. Margaretta Lovell's close examination of Lane’s life, art, and the historical contexts within which he worked represents not only a quantum leap for our understanding of Lane and his world but also a new standard of scholarship for the field of American art.” —Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States Painting the Inhabited Landscape is an American art history that in its depth of research and its absolute assurance in method and goals matches or surpasses anything done by any global modernist art historian today. It is a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century world history in visual and material studies, and will be of interest to anyone looking at the formation of global modernism, technologies, and capital markets. -Bruce Robertson, coauthor of Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far the most insightful study of Lane and his art to date. Margaretta Lovell's close examination of Lane's life, art, and the historical contexts within which he worked represents not only a quantum leap for our understanding of Lane and his world, but also a new standard of scholarship for the field of American art. -Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States Painting the Inhabited Landscape is an American art history that in its depth of research and its absolute assurance in method and goals matches or surpasses anything done by any global modernist art historian today. It is a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century world history in visual and material studies, and will be of interest to anyone looking at the formation of global modernism, technologies, and capital markets. -Bruce Robertson, coauthor of Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far the most insightful study of Lane and his art to date. Margaretta Lovell's close examination of Lane's life, art, and the historical contexts within which he worked represents not only a quantum leap for our understanding of Lane and his world but also a new standard of scholarship for the field of American art. -Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States Author InformationMargaretta Markle Lovell is Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of American Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include the prizewinning Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America and A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America, the latter also published by Penn State University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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