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The end of landscape in nineteenth-century America

Cao, Maggie M., 1983- author

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\"The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Focusing on the unorthodox artworks of four painters--Albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, Ralph Blakelock, and Abbott Thayer--Maggie M. Cao proposes a new way of thinking about these artists' unexpected interventions and how they 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, Cao shows that landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity and was the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902 Criticism and interpretation. / Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 Criticism and interpretation. / Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900 Criticism and interpretation. / Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919 Criticism and interpretation. / Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921 Criticism and interpretation. / Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 Criticism and interpretation. / Landscape painting, American 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780520291423

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ND1351.5.C36 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE