| Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Contributor(s): Brownlee, Peter John (Editor), Piccoli, Valéria (Editor), Uhlyarik, Georgiana (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0300211503 ISBN-13: 9780300211504 Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | American - General - Art | Caribbean & Latin American - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows |
| Dewey: 758.1 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.3" W x 11.2" (3.50 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940. The catalogue is brilliantly illustrated with 260 color images, including works by U.S. artists Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Georgia O'Keeffe; Canadian artists Joseph L gar , Frances Anne Hopkins, and Lawren Harris; Mexico's Jos Mar a Velasco, Uruguay's Joaqu n Torres-Garc a, and Brazil's Tarsila do Amaral, among many others. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents. |
