A keener perception
Subtitle: ecocritical studies in American art history
By: edited by Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher ; foreword by Lawrence Buell.
Contributors: Braddock, Alan C., 1961-; Irmscher, Christoph.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa [Ala.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780817316686; 9780817355517
Subjects: Art, American -- Historiography; Ecocriticism -- United States
Other titles: Ecocritical studies in American art history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Foreword /  Lawrence Buell; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher; title: 1. Filling the field : the Roanoke images of John White and Theodor de Bry / Timothy Sweet; title: 2. Vivification and the early art of William Bartram / Thomas Hallock; title: 3. Wonderful entanglements : Louis Agassiz, Antoine Sonrel, and the challenge of the Medusa / Christoph Irmscher; title: 4. The fate of wilderness in American landscape art : the dilemmas of "Nature's nation" / Angela Miller; title: 5. They might be giants : Galen Clark, Carleton Watkins, and the big tree / Elizabeth Hutchinson; title: 6. Bodies of water : Thomas Eakins, racial ecology, and the limits of civic realism / Alan C. Braddock; title: 7. Pastoral and anti-pastoral in Aaron Douglas's Aspects of negro life / Jeffrey Myers; title: 8. Alexandre Hogue's passion : ecology and agribusiness in the Crucified land / Mark White; title: 9. The sumptuary ecology of Buckminster Fuller's designs / Jonathan Massey; title: 10. "Every corner is alive" : Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and artist / Rebecca Solnit; title: 11. Alberta Thomas, Navajo pictorial arts, and ecocrisis in Dinetah / Janet Catherine Berlo; title: 12. Reframing the last frontier : Subhankar Banerjee and the visual politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / Finis Dunaway; title: Contributors.