A keener perception: ecocritical studies in American art history

Uittreksel

"A landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecology--both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues--have long been of interest to literary critics, and have given rise over the last two decades to the now firmly established field of ecocriticism. The essays in this volume, written by art historians and literary critics, seek to bring the study of American art into the expanding discourse of ecocriticism."--Publisher's website.

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Introduction / Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher -- Filling the field : the Roanoke images of John White and Theodor de Bry / Timothy Sweet -- Vivification and the early art of William Bartram / Thomas Hallock -- Wonderful entanglements : Louis Agassiz, Antoine Sonrel, and the challenge of the Medusa / Christoph Irmscher -- The fate of wilderness in American landscape art : the dilemmas of "Nature's nation" / Angela L. Miller -- They might be giants : Galen Clark, Carleton Watkins, and the big tree / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Bodies of water : Thomas Eakins, racial ecology, and the limits of civic realism / Alan C. Braddock -- Pastoral and anti-pastoral in Aaron Douglas's Aspects of Negro life / Jeffrey Myers -- Alexandre Hogue's passion : ecology and agribusiness in The crucified land / Mark Andrew White -- The sumptuary ecology of Buckminster Fuller's designs / Jonathan Massey -- "Every corner is alive" : Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and artist / Rebecca Solnit -- Alberta Thomas, Navajo pictorial arts, and ecocrisis in Dinétah / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Reframing the last frontier : Subhankar Banerjee and the visual politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / Finis Dunaway.