American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880 Tapa dura - 2002

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Hardcover. NF/VG. Quarto. 12" x 9.75" 284pp. Beautiful book with many color illustrations, two are foldouts.Near fine copy in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. hardcover. fine/fine. 113 color plates, some folding, and 47 black & white illustrations, 4to, yellow cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Fine.<br/> <br/>

Princeton University Press, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pale yellow cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued, with note to slight binding lean original to issue. 284 pp., illus. in color, b&w. Color illus. dust jacket shows just a hint of sunning to spine panel, now in mylar. Catalogue to accompany traveling exhibition in London, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis, 2002..

Princeton. 2002. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0691096708. Winner of Art Newspaper/AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award. Winner of Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award. 256 pages. hardcover. . keywords: America Landscape Painting Art. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The painters who came to be known as the Hudson River School - Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others - found inspiration in our young country's natural wonders and were the first to paint many of its still-wild vistas. As America was settled and the wilderness receded, their successors - most notably Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran - carried their quest for the sublime to the Far West, communicating its breathtaking grandeur in brilliant views of Rocky Mountain peaks, roaring waterfalls, and vast canyons. Within a single generation these artists established the dramatic approach to American landscape painting that is celebrated… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 2002-04-21. hardcover. Used: Good.

Princeton University Press, 2002-04-21. hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton University Press, 2002-04-21. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0691096708 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 284 pages. "None of the domestic cleverness of folk art is evident in American Sublime, a gorgeously illustrated and learned history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, a sophisticated school rooted in British romanticism and American transcendence. Wilton, of the Tate Gallery, considers the influence of Edmund Burke's theory of sublimity and the surge in scientific development on American painters, while coauthor Tim Barringer, an art historian at Yale, discusses the profound effect on the painters' imaginations of a pristine land free of Western religious, literary, and historical associations. The American "instinct to find spiritual significance in nature" is manifest in the luminous beauty and… Leer más