Narrating the landscape : print culture and American expansion in the nineteenth century / Matthew N. Johnston.

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Matt, 1970- author.

Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Series:

Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 24.
The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; Volume 24

Format/Description:

Book
242 pages ; 29 cm.

Subjects:

Landscapes in art.
Landscape prints, American -- 19th century.
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- In art.
United States -- In popular culture.

Contents:

Introduction : Landscape and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Reading the Past outside the Window : Competing Visions of History in Paintings and Railroad Guidebooks
The Anatomy of Greed : Newport Tourist Literature and the Luminist Works of William Trost Richards and John Frederick Kensett
'Walking Statues' : Narrative and Landscape in Early American Ethnology
The Figuration of Time in the Geological Surveys of the West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

ISBN:

9780806152233
0806152230

OCLC:

922970867

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