Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape - Hardcover

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300263821 ISBN 13: 9780300263824

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2022

Synopsis

An investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries<br /><br /> Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, amid enormous expansion in global commerce and colonization, landscape drawing played a key role in forging Dutch national identity. Featuring works on paper by Rembrandt, Bruegel, and Ruisdael, among dozens of other artists, this study examines how a hyperlocal impulse in many of these drawings inspired domestic pride and a sense of connection to the land, as they also reflected aspects of the broader ecological and social change taking place. Incisive essays offer close readings that push our understandings of these artists and their work in important new directions, including eco-criticism, land use and environmentalism, race, and class.

About this title

About the Author

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, and Susan Anderson is curatorial research associate for Dutch and Flemish drawings, both in the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.<br />

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300263821
• ISBN 13: 9780300263824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Seidenstein Joanna Sheers, Anderson Susan