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Novak, Barbara
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
New York Praeger Publishers 1969 Reprint, 1971 Soft Cover Fair
350 pp., illus. (part col.), biblio., index; 25 cm. Reading copy: Worn wraps, creased spine. Previous owner's name/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. A scruffy, but serviceable copy.
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Novak, Barbara
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875
New York Oxford University Press 1981 0195029356 / 9780195029352 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good
x, 323 pp., [4] leaves of plates, illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. This is one of the best books on 19th-century American art. "In this richly illustrated volume, Barbara Novak explains that for fifty extraordinary years, American society bestowed in the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875 all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. During these years Nature, God, and Man converged to become a trinity, and it was through the landscape painters, the leaders of this intellectual movement, that the nation was reminded of divine benevolence 'by keeping before their eyes the mountains, trees, forests, and lakes.' Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected on to the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Wordsworth, Th'eodore Rousseau, and Frederich Wilhelm Schelling. Adding a rich new dimension to the discussion of nature's influence in America, Novak explains how religion, philosophy, science, and literature served as the support system for the idea of God in Nature. She shows that the idea of nature as a national vested interest was invaluable to a young expanding nation, but ultimately this essentially monolithic view collapsed from within, undermined by the Civil War, Darwinism, and a burgeoning technological landscape. Taking American landscape painting in its golden era as a product of society, she examines the cultural background of paintings as an index to their intrinsic meaning. She explains, for example, how new discoveries in science were made consonant with Deity, how religion itself permeated nature with the idea of Creation, and how the landscape artists were given the task of providing the images of nature that became the national iconography. Novak goes on to demonstrate how American landscapists, handling rocks, clouds, plants, and other natural elements, paralleled and diverged from scientific developments, and also how the artists who accompanied explorers on their westward expeditions related to their scientific colleagues. / Barbara Novak is Altschul Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University and the author of numerous books on American art and culture, including American Painting in the Nineteenth Century." - Publisher.
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Novak, Barbara
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875
New York Oxford University Press 1981 0195029356 / 9780195029352 Soft Cover Good
x, 323 pp., [4] leaves of plates, illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 26 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Scuffed front cover. Age toning. Another copy available. This is one of the best books on 19th-century American art. "In this richly illustrated volume, Barbara Novak explains that for fifty extraordinary years, American society bestowed in the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875 all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. During these years Nature, God, and Man converged to become a trinity, and it was through the landscape painters, the leaders of this intellectual movement, that the nation was reminded of divine benevolence 'by keeping before their eyes the mountains, trees, forests, and lakes.' Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected on to the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Wordsworth, Th'eodore Rousseau, and Frederich Wilhelm Schelling. Adding a rich new dimension to the discussion of nature's influence in America, Novak explains how religion, philosophy, science, and literature served as the support system for the idea of God in Nature. She shows that the idea of nature as a national vested interest was invaluable to a young expanding nation, but ultimately this essentially monolithic view collapsed from within, undermined by the Civil War, Darwinism, and a burgeoning technological landscape. Taking American landscape painting in its golden era as a product of society, she examines the cultural background of paintings as an index to their intrinsic meaning. She explains, for example, how new discoveries in science were made consonant with Deity, how religion itself permeated nature with the idea of Creation, and how the landscape artists were given the task of providing the images of nature that became the national iconography. Novak goes on to demonstrate how American landscapists, handling rocks, clouds, plants, and other natural elements, paralleled and diverged from scientific developments, and also how the artists who accompanied explorers on their westward expeditions related to their scientific colleagues. / Barbara Novak is Altschul Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University and the author of numerous books on American art and culture, including American Painting in the Nineteenth Century." - Publisher.
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Foshay, Ella (Curated by); Novak, Barbara (Introduction by), and Armstrong, Tom (Foreword by)
Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art
New York Alfred A. Knopf, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art 1984 0874270464 / 9780874270464 First paperback edition Soft Cover Very Good Exhibition Catalogue
xvii, 202 pp., col. illus., biblio., index; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, March 1-May 20, 1984. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Date handwritten on the title page in a miniscule hand, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Profusely illustrated, with a scholarly text on the floral motif in American art. The author consider Botanical Drawings; Floral Still Life, Flowers and Landscape, and Twentieth-Century Flower Art, including Georgia O'Keeffe. Authoritative.
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Novak, Barbara
Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press 2006 0195305906 / 9780195305906 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
xii, 217 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works, offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. In this book, Novak explores several inspired pairings of key writers and painters, drawing insightful parallels between such masters as John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards, Winslow Homer and William James, Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman, and Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson. Through these and other groupings, Novak tracks the varied meanings of the self in America, in which the most salient characteristics of each artist or writer is shown to draw from--and in turn influence--the larger map of American life. Two major threads weaving through the book are the American preoccupation with the 'object' and our continuing return to pragmatism. Novak notes for instance how Copley's art mirrors the puritan denial of self found in Jonathan Edwards and how as colonial scientists they share an interest in sensation and observation. She sees Winslow Homer and William James as practitioners of a pragmatic self grounded in an immediate experience that looks for concrete results. Through such fruitful comparisons--whether between Copley and Edwards, or Lane and Emerson, or Ryder and Dickinson--Novak sheds unmatched light on our nation's artistic heritage. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white pictures and sixteen full-color plates, here is a stunning work that yields a wealth of insight into American art and culture--and concludes Novak's landmark trilogy. / Barbara Novak is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Emerita at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the acclaimed author of American Painting of the Nineteenth Century ... and Nature and Culture ... She has been a Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery for the last twenty-five years." - Publisher.
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