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- catalog abstract ""Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied geology. Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas." "This study of the Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh insights into some of the most influential works of American art and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and between science, and religion, in the nineteenth century. It will draw a broad audience of art historians, Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the American natural landscape."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Geology & American landscape painting, 1825-1875".
- catalog contributor b12325835.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied geology. Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas." "This study of the Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh insights into some of the most influential works of American art and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and between science, and religion, in the nineteenth century. It will draw a broad audience of art historians, Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the American natural landscape."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Popularity of Geology -- Ch. 1. Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science -- Ch. 2. Asher Durand and the Therapeutic Landscape -- Ch. 3. Frederic Church and the Educational Enterprise -- Ch. 4. John Kensett, Geology, and Landscape Tourism -- Ch. 5. William Stanley Haseltine and the Rocks at Nahant -- Ch. 6. Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 185 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691074631 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "758/.1/097309034 21".
- catalog subject "Geology in art.".
- catalog subject "Landscape painting, American 19th century.".
- catalog subject "ND1351.5 .B43 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Popularity of Geology -- Ch. 1. Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science -- Ch. 2. Asher Durand and the Therapeutic Landscape -- Ch. 3. Frederic Church and the Educational Enterprise -- Ch. 4. John Kensett, Geology, and Landscape Tourism -- Ch. 5. William Stanley Haseltine and the Rocks at Nahant -- Ch. 6. Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys.".
- catalog title "Geology & American landscape painting, 1825-1875".
- catalog title "The anatomy of nature : geology & American landscape painting, 1825-1875 / Rebecca Bedell.".
- catalog type "text".