The cultured canvas : new perspectives on American landscape painting / edited by Nancy Siegel.

Other author Siegel, Nancy.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoDurham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxx, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Landscape painting, American--19th century.
Landscapes in art.

SeriesBecoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Becoming modern. ^A486624
Contents Introduction : Redefining the canvas -- The Englishness of Thomas Cole / Tim Barringer -- Above the clouds at sunrise : Frederic Church's memorial to Thomas Cole / Kenneth John Myers -- Andrew Jackson Downing and the sentimental domestic landscape / Rebecca Bedell -- Rethinking "Luminism" : taste, class, and aestheticizing tendencies in mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting / Alan Wallach -- "We the petticoated ones" : women of the Hudson River School / Nancy Siegel -- Jervis McEntee : the trials of a landscape painter / David Schuyler -- Eliza Pratt Greatorex : becoming a landscape painter / Kathie Manthorne -- Body-nature-paint : embodying experience in Gilded Age American landscape painting / Adrienne Baxter Bell -- Contributors.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011034656
ISBN9781611681970 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611681979 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781611681987 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1611681987 (pbk. : alk. paper)