Reenvisioning "this well-wooded land"

Author

Simon, Janice

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Seeing high and low : representing social conflict in American visual culture

Author (monograph)

Johnston, Patricia (Editor, Author of introductory parts, Contributor, Collective Author)

Source

Seeing high and low : representing social conflict in American visual culture. 2006, 142-159, 11 ill.

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Looks at landscape painting in gilded age America, focusing on the representation of the country's forests at a time when they were threatened by industrialization. Compares the paintings with magazine illustrations of the same subject, concluding that only popular illustration allowed images of deforestation. Includes discussion of Alexander H. Wyant's An Old Clearing (1881; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Asher B. Durand's In the Woods (1855; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- United States
• Painting
• Prints
• Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886
• In the Woods
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Wyant, Alexander Helwig, 1836-1892
• An Old Clearing
• Landscape
• Forests
• Destruction
• United States
• 1800-1900

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- États-Unis
• Peinture
• Estampe
• Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886
• Dans les bois
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Wyant, Alexander Helwig, 1836-1892
• Une Vieille clairière
• Paysage
• Forêt
• Destruction
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-1900

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00026281

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