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In the Shade of the Pine

Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876

AvChristiana Payne

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against climate change and as sources of emotional well-being. In nineteenth-century America, against a backdrop of accelerating deforestation much like today’s, writers and artists found emotional solace and symbolic meaning in the woods, identifying trees as a civic and spiritual good in need of preservation. In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825–1876 explores the significance of trees in the visual and literary imagination of mid-nineteenth-century America through the work of seven artists and writers: Thomas Cole’s explorations of the Catskills; Albert Bierstadt’s portrayal of the splendid trees of California, including the ancient giant sequoias; the paintings and drawings of Asher Brown Durand and Frederic Edwin Church; the photographs of William James Stillman; and the environmental writings of Susan Fenimore Cooper and Henry David Thoreau. This richly illustrated volume shows the unique influence the ecology of their land had on the emotional and intellectual landscapes of a generation. In their careful study of the woods—the beauty of trees, their practical importance to human beings and other living creatures, and the power of the forest to confer spiritual and emotional benefits—these artists and writers laid the groundwork for an ecological consciousness that remains vitally relevant today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-12
Mått:197 x 218 x 18 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:University of Arkansas Press
ISBN:9781682262887

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Växtböcker inom Djur och Natur
Fotografisamlingar inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Christiana Payne, professor emerita of history of art at Oxford Brookes University, has published several books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, including Silent Witnesses: Trees in British Art, 1760–1870. She has curated fifteen exhibitions and displays, most recently Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art (Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK).

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"Through stunning visual evidence and discussions of the written words of artists and naturalists, Christiana Payne's In the Shade of the Pine uncovers young America's concern for a sylvan world under tremendous threat. As readers encounter the words and paintings of thinkers who mourned the early nation's destruction of forests and trees, they enter an era in which art and literature helped to birth the science of ecology. This compelling volume helps restore the pervasive environmental concern that informed nineteenth-century America, reminding us that art and literature have worked through the ages to protest nature's degradation." —Rochelle L. Johnson, past president, the Thoreau Society"In the Shade of the Pine is an important book. In concise essays on the practices of close observation shared by five nineteenth-century landscape painters and two naturalist writers, the author interrogates ideas and cultural attitudes that persist today in our era of acute climate awareness. Newly settled and absent of the Old World's monuments, the vast forests still to be found in America were embraced as a claim to national identity, venerated as spiritual retreats, and recognized as complex ecological environments. Well-written and well-documented, Payne's book presents iconic works freshly perceived with ecocritical insights." —Linda S. Ferber, vice president and museum director emerita, the New-York Historical Society