Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 - Softcover

Novak, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195305876 ISBN 13: 9780195305876

Publisher: OUP USA, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

...test[s] the the accepted perimeters of art history (TLS)

About the Author:

Barbara Novak is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Emerita at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the acclaimed author of American Painting of the Nineteenth Century ("surely the best book ever written on the subject"-Hilton Kramer, The New York Times Book Review) and Nature and Culture ("awesomely good"-Anatole Broyard, The New York Times). She has been a Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery for the last twenty-five years.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195305876
• ISBN 13: 9780195305876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 326