The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America

Synopsis

The End Of Landscape In Nineteenth-century America Examines The Dissolution Of Landscape Painting In The Late Nineteenth-century United States. Focusing On The Unorthodox Artworks Of Four Painters--albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, Ralph Blakelock, And Abbott Thayer--maggie M. Cao Proposes A New Way Of Thinking About These Artists' Unexpected Interventions And How They Challenged, Mourned, Or Revised The Conventions Of Landscape Painting, A Major Cultural Project For Nineteenth-century Americans. Through Rich Analysis Of Artworks At The Genre's Unsettling Limits, Cao Shows That Landscape Played A Crucial Role In The American Encounter With Modernity And Was The Genre Through Which American Art Most Urgently Sought To Come To Terms With The Modern World--provided By Publisher. Preface : What End? -- Introduction : Inventions And Failures -- Closure : Albert Bierstadt's Last Pictures -- Sabotage : Martin Johnson Heade And Frederic Church -- Insolvency : Ralph Blakelock's Economic Accretion -- Camouflage : Abbott Thayer And John Singer Sargent -- Afterword : Un-landing Landscape. Maggie M. Cao. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.