Book ID: CBB000358509

The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825--1875 (2001)

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Bedell, Rebecca Bailey (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xiii + 185 pp.; ill.; maps; bib.; index
Language: English

Description Concerns the way that Hudson River School artists carried on a tradition of geology that endeavored to preserve a Christianized version of science.


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Review Runte, Alfred (2002) Review of "The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825--1875". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 744). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Robert T. McMaster
Santoro, Lily A.
Gephart, Emily Willard
Caplin, Jo Ann
Tison, Richard Perry, II
Stoll, Steven
Journals
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Science in Context
Renaissance Studies
Pacific Historical Review
Massachusetts Historical Review
History of Science
Publishers
Unquomonk Press
University of Delaware
University of Chicago Press
The MIT Press
Northwestern University Press
National Gallery of Victoria
Concepts
Science and art
Painters and painting
Science and religion
Geology
Visual representation; visual communication
Natural history
People
Hitchcock, Edward
van Maldeghem, Eugen
August von Heyden
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
Davies, Arthur Bowen
Knight, Charles Robert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Prussia (Germany)
Pacific Ocean
South America
Netherlands
Institutions
Field Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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