American sublime
Subtitle: landscape painting in the United States, 1820-1880
By: Andrew Wilton & Tim Barringer.
Contributors: Barringer, T. J.; Tate Britain (Gallery); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Landscape painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Sublime, The, in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Landscape painting in the United States, 1820-1880
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index.
"Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, London 21 February-19 May 2002, and touring to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia 17 June-25 August 2002, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 22 September-17 November 2002"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The sublime in the old world and the new / Andrew Wilton; title: The course of empires : landscape and identity in America and Britain, 1820-1880 / Tim Barringer; title: [Catalogue] Wilderness; title: The course of empire; title: The still small voice; title: "Awful grandeur"; title: Painting from nature; title: A transcendental vision; title: Explorations; title: The great West; title: Biographies of the artists / Graham C. Boettcher.