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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction: "Coming Round" Again -- Peter Mark; Mountains in Italian Renaissance Depictions of "The Sacrifice of Isaac" -- Penny Snyder; Analyzing Frederic Church's The Heart of the Andes with Joseph Addison's Neoclassical and Prototypical Theory of Artistic Criticism -- Matthew Kim; Wordsworth's Alps -- Elizabeth Deatrick; John Ruskin, Turner, and the Romantic Pursuit of Truth -- Avery Chase; The Power of the Sublime in the Mountains -- Page Nelson; The Intersection of Alpine Passes and Landscape Painting -- Gordon Pignato. |
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Terrible Beauty: Artistic Representations of the White Mountains in the Nineteenth Century -- Peter HelmanThanatopsis: A Vision of Change in Nineteenth Century America -- Penny Snyder; The South American Mountains of Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Edwin Church -- Elizabeth Deatrick; From Postcards to Watercolors: Emil Nolde (1867-1956) and the Medium of the Mountains -- William Wiebe; Arnold Fanck and German Bergfilm -- Jackson Sabes; This Wild Country: Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums and the Mountains -- Catherine Walsh; King Ortler; Climbing as Experience, a photo essay -- Peter Mark. |
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Appendix: The Course Syllabus -- ARHA 296: The Mountains and Art HistoryAcknowledgements. |
| Summary |
The first English-language study of mountains as subject matter and inspiration for the visual arts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mountains in art -- Historiography.
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Mountains in art. |
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Historiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mark, Peter, 1948- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mountains in art history. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2017 9780819577290 (DLC) 2016049088 |
| ISBN |
9780819577306 (electronic book) |
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0819577308 (electronic book) |
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9780819577290 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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