Название: Narrating the Landscape: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Автор(ы): Matthew N. Johnston
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Серия: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
Год: 2016
ISBN: 0806152230
Страниц: 249
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 78 MB

The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period’s landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age’s defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports of geological surveys, ethnographic studies: all of these new print vehicles brought new meanings to the interplay of time, space, and place as American continental expansion peaked.