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"Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied geology.
Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas.".
"This study of the Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh insights into some of the most influential works of American art and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and between science, and religion, in the nineteenth century.
It will draw a broad audience of art historians, Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the American natural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
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Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
2024, Princeton University Press
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The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
June 3, 2002, Princeton University Press
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The Anatomy of Nature: Geology & American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
June 1, 2001, Princeton University Press
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