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OverviewThe End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre’s unsettling limits—landscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flight—Cao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maggie M. CaoPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780520291423ISBN 10: 0520291425 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 24 July 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments * ix Prologue: What End? * 1 Introduction: Inventions and Failures * 9 PART I 1. Closure: Albert Bierstadt's Last Pictures * 31 2. Sabotage: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Church * 68 PART II 3. Insolvency: Ralph Blakelock's Economic Accretion * 113 4. Camouflage: Abbott Handerson Thayer and John Singer Sargent * 153 Afterword: Un-landing Landscape * 199 Notes * 207 List of Illustrations * 247Reviews"""The case Cao makes is too complicated to reproduce here; one detail will have to suffice: the decorative butterfly unexpectedly echoes the apparition of the steamboat Ancon as it lists off the shores of Alaska, reminding the artist of his own artistic dead end. Imaginative leaps such as this abound in this brilliant book; Cao makes them with breathtaking historical sophistication."" * Journal of American History * ""It must be said that [Cao's] arguments are frequently highly creative and imaginative."" * Winterthur Portfolio *" It must be said that [Cao's] arguments are frequently highly creative and imaginative. * Winterthur Portfolio * The case Cao makes is too complicated to reproduce here; one detail will have to suffice: the decorative butterfly unexpectedly echoes the apparition of the steamboat Ancon as it lists off the shores of Alaska, reminding the artist of his own artistic dead end. Imaginative leaps such as this abound in this brilliant book; Cao makes them with breathtaking historical sophistication. * Journal of American History * The case Cao makes is too complicated to reproduce here; one detail will have to suffice: the decorative butterfly unexpectedly echoes the apparition of the steamboat Ancon as it lists off the shores of Alaska, reminding the artist of his own artistic dead end. Imagi- native leaps such as this abound in this brilliant book; Cao makes them with breathtaking historical sophistication. * Journal of American History * Author InformationMaggie M. Cao is David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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