Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.
Contents:
Country matters -- Paysages moralisés -- Claude and Salvator in America -- River arcadias -- Sweet water -- Rowing in Eden -- Hunters in Eden -- Painted ships and arcadian beaches -- The angry sea -- Waterscapes in twentieth-century transatlantic culture.
Summary:
"Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions." "Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas adopts the interdisciplinary and comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies. The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western world."--Jacket.
Series:
American university studies. Series XIX, General literature ; v. 36
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