The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520291423)

The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that 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--landscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flight--Cao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.

Author: Maggie M. Cao
ISBN-10: 0520291425
ISBN-13: 9780520291423
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2018
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.90d