A keener perception : ecocritical studies in American art history

Responsibility
edited by Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher ; foreword by Lawrence Buell.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
Physical description
xvi, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 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 fine art : the dilemmas of "Nature'southward nation" / Angela L. Miller
  • They might be giants : Galen Clark, Carleton Watkins, and the big tree / Elizabeth Hutchinson
  • Bodies of water : Thomas Eakins, racial environmental, and the limits of civic realism / Alan C. Braddock
  • Pastoral and anti-pastoral in Aaron Douglas'southward Aspects of negro life / Jeffrey Myers
  • Alexandre Hogue's passion : ecology and agribusiness in the Crucified land / Mark Andrew White
  • The sumptuary environmental of Buckminster Fuller's designs / Jonathan Massey
  • "Every corner is alive" : Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and creative person / 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 Chill National Wild animals Refuge / Finis Dunaway.
Summary
Problems of ecology - both as they announced in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues - take long been of involvement to literary critics, and have given rising over the last 2 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 report of American art into the expanding discourse of ecocriticism. "A Keener Perception" offers a serial of instance studies on topics ranging from John White'south watercolors of the Carolina landscape executed during Sir Walter Raleigh's 1585 Roanoke expedition to photographs by environmental activist Eliot Porter. Rather than merely resurrect by instances of ecologically attuned art, this volume features essays that resituate many canonical figures, such equally Thomas Eakins, Aaron Douglas, and Isamu Noguchi, in an ecocritical light by which they take nevertheless to be viewed. Studying such artists and artworks through an ecocritical lens not only provides a better agreement of these works and the American mural, but too brings a new interpretive paradigm the field of art history - a field that many of these critics believe would exercise well to cover environmental concerns as a vital surface area of research. In highlighting the work of scholars who bring ecological agendas to their study of American fine art, every bit well as providing models for literary scholars who might like to better comprise the visual arts into their own scholarship and education, "A Keener Perception" is truly a landmark collection - timely, consequential, and controversial.
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Publication date
2009
Championship variation
Ecocritical studies in American art history
ISBN
081731668X (cloth : alk. newspaper)
9780817316686 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817355510 (pbk. : alk. newspaper)
9780817355517 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Acquired with support from

Arthur C. Cohn Memorial Book Fund in American Art

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