Within the Landscape
Essays on Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture
208 pages | 20 color/60 b&w illustrations | 9 x 6 | 2005
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ISBN 978-0-9768488-0-6 | paper: $29.95 sh
During the nineteenth century, American artists, writers, and philosophers collaborated in the formation of a culture devoted to the country’s natural splendors and the meanings these might harbor for its citizens. Arguably, the earliest and most influential of such pictorial and literary mergings took place in the Hudson River School, the subject of the essays gathered in this volume from the Trout Gallery of Dickinson College.
The artists and writers discussed in this anthology range from Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, to Stanford Gifford and Washington Irving. After an introduction to American landscape, the essays treat notions of divine presence in nature, the spread of imagery through prints, and the transformation of the Catskills into “a resort and a refuge.”
Offering innovative scholarship in accessible language, Within the Landscape lends itself to use as a textbook in courses on nineteenth-century American art and culture.
Introduction, Phillip Earenfight
Painting the Christian Landscape, Matthew Baigell
The Mid-Hudson Valley as Iconic Landscape, David Schuyler
The Emblematic Imagery of Thomas Cole, Nancy Siegel
The Panoramic Mode in Hudson River School Landscape Painting, Alan Wallach
Gifford and the Catskills, Kevin Avery
Phillip Earenfight is Director of the Trout Gallery and Associate Professor of Art History at Dickinson College. His research and publications focus on late medieval Italian art and architecture and the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
Nancy Siegel is Director of the Juniata College Museum of Art and Assistant Professor of Art History. She is the author of Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery (2003) and The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers (2001).
Contents
Foreword—Carolyn Sachs
1 Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life
Hugh Campbell, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, and Margaret Finney
Part 1: Practices
2 Cultivating Dialogue: Sustainable Agriculture and Masculinities
Gregory Peter, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Susan Jarnagin, and Donna Bauer
3 Three Visions of Masculine Success on American Farms
Peggy F. Barlett
4 Masculinities in Rural Small Business Ownership: Between Community and Capitalism
Sharon Bird
5 Real Men, Real Locals, and Real Workers: Realizing Masculinity in Small-Town New Zealand
Hugh Campbell
6 Rooted and Routed Masculinities Among the Rural Youth of North Cork and Upper Swaledale
Caitríona Ní Laoire and Shaun Fielding
7 “White Men Are This Nation”: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity
Michael Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber
8 Rural Men’s Health: Situating Risk in the Negotiation of Masculinity
Will H. Courtenay
Part 2: Representations
9 Cowboy Love
David Bell
10 Embodiment and Rural Masculinity
Jo Little
11 Beer Advertising, Rurality, and Masculinity
Robin Law
12 Changing Masculinity in a Changing Rural Industry: Representations in the Forestry Press
Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen
13 Warrior Heroes and Little Green Men: Soldiers, Military Training, and the Construction of Rural Masculinities
Rachel Woodward
Part 3: Changes
14 Country/City Men
Robert W. Connell
15 Gendered Places and Place-Based Gender Identities: Reflections and Refractions
Linda Lobao
About the Contributors
A Note on the Photographs
References
Index