Tyler Green, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's Nature and the Artists - Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea
Prestel

Páginas: 144
Formato: 27x20x3
Peso: 1.0 kgs.
ISBN: 9783791378695

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emersons seminal 1836 essay is at once an investigation into the ways artists influence each other and a timely cri de coeur to cherish and preserve Americas landscape. Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emersons Nature urges Americans to value and immerse themselves in their countrys landscape, to build American culture from America's nature. Nearly two centuries after the original publication of the essay Nature by Emerson, this captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings together a selection of artistic works in dialog with Emersons complete text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take on Nature through new research into how the essay was informed by Emersons experiences of art and, in turn, how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. The result is a unique melding of essay, art, and ideas that will draw new readers to Emersons writings, while also introducing a fresh perspective on a critical contribution to the American canon and showing what impact Emerson's text still has for us to this day.