Fields of vision : landscape imagery and national identity in England and the United States
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Bibliographic Information
Fields of vision : landscape imagery and national identity in England and the United States
(Human geography / series editor, Derek Gregory)
Polity Press, 1993
Available at 45 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a bold and innovative discussion of how the world around us is seen, interpreted and constructed. It examines how different landscapes have served to define national identity in England and the United States. The representation of rural, urban and industrial scenes in the works of artists, writers and designers, including John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Cole, Humphry Repton and Christopher Wren, is analysed in depth. Their works are interpreted in the context of their own times and as reinterpreted in later periods. The use of paintings like Constable's Hay-wain in modern publicity is examined, as is the representation of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral in the present Prince of Wales's Vision of Britain . Two chapters examine how landscape conventions developed in England were deployed in definitions of American national identity. The book shows how landscape imagery encapsulates a variety of social relations and forms of knowledge, and how depictions of national identity in landscape affect local, regional, and international identities. Daniels emphasizes the relation between landscape depiction and another main expression of national identity, historical narration.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Prince of Wales and the Shadow of St. Paul's 2. Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Power 3. Humphry Repton and the Improvement of the Estate 4. J.M.W. Turner and the Circulation of the State 5. Thomas Cole and the Course of Empire 6. Frances Palmer and the Incorporation of the Continent 7. John Constable and the Making of Constable Country Conclusion.
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