The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America

By Maggie M. Cao

The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through rich analysis of artworks at the genre's unsettling limits--landscapes that self-destruct, masquerade as currency, or even take flight--Cao shows that experiments in landscape played a crucial role in the American encounter with modernity. Landscape is the genre through which American art most urgently sought to come to terms with the modern world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520291425
• ISBN13: 9780520291423
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.2"