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Book Description: Oxford University Press Inc. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (3rd Revised edition), Barbara Novak, In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine. Bookseller Inventory # B9780195305869

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Book Description: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Third Revised Edition. (304) THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND, PLEASE ALLOW UP TO 10 DAYs EXTRA FOR DELIVERY. In this second volume of her trilogy on American art and culture, Novak explains that for fifty extraordinary years, American society bestowed in the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AQ0195305868

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Book Description: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 3rd Revised edition. 240 x 162 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780195305869

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Book Description: Oxford Univ Pr, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 296 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.95 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-0195305868

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 3rd. 236mm x 25mm x 165mm. 352 pages. 0.726. Bookseller Inventory # 9780195305869

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 3rd. 236mm x 25mm x 165mm. 352 pages. 0.726. Bookseller Inventory # 9780195305869

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