Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2002
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Oblong 4to, 84 pp., With essays by Susan Danly, Martha Hoppin & Ethan Carr; foreword by Christopher Benfry. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke
- Author
- Doezema, Marianne (editor)
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801441196
- ISBN 13
- 9780801441196
- Illustrator
- Well-illustrated
- Edition
- 1st.
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Mt. Holyoke, which overlooks the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, has been a tourist destination and an inspiration for artists and writers for almost two centuries. The view from its summit attracted the Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole among many others, including literary visitors such as Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1836, Cole created the most famous painting associated with the mountain, based on sketches he made during his visit to the site. The Oxbow, which is a centerpiece of this book and the accompanying exhibition, shows a thunderstorm sweeping across the sky above the mountaintop in contrast to the gardenlike pastoral scene in the valley below. It has been described as the most important American landscape painting of the nineteenth century.
Frequent flooding, changing settlement patterns, and industrialization have all had a role in altering the view from the summit. The Oxbow became a closed loop bisected by a highway, and marinas punctuate the Connecticut River. From Cole's time to our own, artists including Edward Corbett, Stephen Hannock, Alfred Leslie, and Elizabeth Meyersohn have observed and recorded these alterations. Color plates of their paintings and photographs, reproduced in the book, allow us to track changes to the landscape and to Cole's influence. Contemporary artists both challenge and pay homage to his vision of the scene, even as their images are used to underline the need to preserve the mountain's natural beauty and cultural significance.
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About the Author
Marianne Doezema is Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke Art Museum. She is the author of George Bellows and Urban America and coeditor of Reading American Art. Christopher Benfey is Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of two books on Emily Dickinson and a biography of Stephen Crane and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. His most recent book is Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable. Susan Danly, formerly curator of American Art at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, was recently appointed Curator of Graphics, Photographs, and Art Since 1950 at the Portland Museum of Art. She is coeditor, with Leo Marx, of The Railroad in American Art: Representations of Technological Change. Martha Hoppin, an independent curator of American art, has published articles in American Art Journal and American Art Review. Ethan Carr is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service.
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