Screen LibraryNarrating the landscape : print culture and American expansion in the nineteenth century /
"The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in...
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University of Oklahoma Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Norman, Oklahoma : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ;
volume 24 |
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"The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period's landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age's defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports of ge |
| Carrier Form: | 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780806152233 0806152230 |
| Index Number: | NE954 |
| CLC: | J205.712 |
| Call Number: | J205.712/J731 |
| Contents: | Introduction : Landscape and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture -- Reading the Past outside the Window : Competing Visions of History in Paintings and Railroad Guidebooks -- The Anatomy of Greed : Newport Tourist Literature and the Luminist Works of William Trost Richards and John Frederick Kensett -- 'Walking Statues' : Narrative and Landscape in Early American Ethnology -- The Figuration of Time in the Geological Surveys of the West. |