Painting Culture Painting Nature

Author : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195345667

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Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine

Author : Gunlög Fur
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806163468

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Painting Culture, Painting Nature by Gunlög Fur Pdf

In the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882–1966). With Jacobson’s instruction and friendship, the Kiowa Six, as they are now known, ignited a spectacular movement in American Indian art. Jacobson, who was himself an accomplished painter, shared a lifelong bond with group member Stephen Mopope (1898–1974), a prolific Kiowa painter, dancer, and musician. Painting Culture, Painting Nature explores the joint creativity of these two visionary figures and reveals how indigenous and immigrant communities of the early twentieth century traversed cultural, social, and racial divides. Painting Culture, Painting Nature is a story of concurrences. For a specific period, immigrants such as Jacobson and disenfranchised indigenous people such as Mopope transformed Oklahoma into the center of exciting new developments in Indian art, which quickly spread to other parts of the United States and to Europe. Jacobson and Mopope came from radically different worlds, and were on unequal footing in terms of power and equality, but they both experienced, according to author Gunlög Fur, forms of diaspora or displacement. Seeking to root themselves anew in Oklahoma, the dispossessed artists fashioned new mediums of compelling and original art. Although their goals were compatible, Jacobson’s and Mopope’s subjects and styles diverged. Jacobson painted landscapes of the West, following a tradition of painting nature uninfluenced by human activity. Mopope, in contrast, strove to capture the cultural traditions of his people. The two artists shared a common nostalgia, however, for a past life that they could only re-create through their art. Whereas other books have emphasized the promotion of Indian art by Euro-Americans, this book is the first to focus on the agency of the Kiowa artists within the context of their collaboration with Jacobson. The volume is further enhanced by full-color reproductions of the artists’ works and rare historical photographs.

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Landscape painting
ISBN : 0500012458

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Nature and Culture by Barbara Novak Pdf

Author : Fred R. Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0822329492

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Painting Culture by Fred R. Myers Pdf

DIVThe history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market./div

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691200804

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Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States by Eleanor Jones Harvey Pdf

The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021

Author : Rosina Buckland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004249417

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Painting Nature for the Nation by Rosina Buckland Pdf

In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet neglected, figure, Buckland traces how Katei transformed his art and practice based in modes derived from China in order to fulfil the needs of the modern nation-state at large-scale exhibitions and at the imperial court.

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781577319221

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Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life by Alan Watts Pdf

Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.

Author : Yi Gu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684176137

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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting by Yi Gu Pdf

"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Author : Martin Warnke
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232348

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Political Landscape by Martin Warnke Pdf

We all know what "the political landscape" is, and politicians and journalists never tire of referring to it. But in this ingenious and original book, Martin Warnke takes that well-worn metaphor literally and uses it to reveal just how politicized the real landscape of continental Europe has been for centuries. The author finds his evidence of humanity's intervention in nature in the form of monuments and milestones, gardens, roads and border crossings, in landscape paintings and maps – even, in fact, in the anthropomorphic interpretations once given to formations of hills and rocks. The Political Landscape is underpinned with a fascinating array of examples and illustrations, many of which will be new even to experts in the art of landscape and related disciplines.

Author : Petra Halkes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802038944

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Aspiring to the Landscape by Petra Halkes Pdf

The idea of nature as a cultural construction has been discussed extensively in postmodern theory. Less attention, however, has been paid to the underlying motivations shaping the ideologies of nature, in particular the desire to submit to some larger order outside of oneself. Aspiring to the Landscape examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art. Four installations of large-scale paintings by Canadian artists Eleanor Bond, Susan Feindel, Stephen Hutchings, and Wanda Koop are the focus of Petra Halkes's study. The works vary widely in style and iconography but are drawn together by the way they invite a reflection on the troubled relationship between culture and nature and our contradictory and simultaneous longing to conquer and to succumb to nature. It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.

Author : S. Allyn Schaeffer,John Shaw
Publisher : Stoddart
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Landscape painting
ISBN : 0773754318

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The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil by S. Allyn Schaeffer,John Shaw Pdf

Author : Haonian Ou,Barry Till,Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Painting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032417086

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In Harmony with Nature by Haonian Ou,Barry Till,Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Pdf

Author : Gale Straub
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781452167671

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She Explores by Gale Straub Pdf

For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.

Author : Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300094473

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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting by Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun Pdf

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

Author : Anne Ring Petersen,Mikkel Bogh,Hans Dam Christensen,Peter Nørgaard Larsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9788763525978

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Contemporary Painting in Context by Anne Ring Petersen,Mikkel Bogh,Hans Dam Christensen,Peter Nørgaard Larsen Pdf

These essays examine the transformation and expansion of the field of painting in relation to the more general lines of development in culture and visuality. The book is divided into five parts, with each of them pursuing a distinct line of inquiry.