The landscape of belief : encountering the Holy Land in nineteenth-century American art and culture
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書誌事項
The landscape of belief : encountering the Holy Land in nineteenth-century American art and culture
(The Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society)
Princeton University Press, c1996
大学図書館所蔵 全13件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book tells of the nineteenth-century American painters who, along with photographers, archaeologists, writers, evangelists, and tourists, flocked to the biblical Holy Land, a world of striking landscape vistas that reflected, in their eyes, a powerful image of the United States. Here they saw a metaphor for their country: a New World promised land, a divinely favoured Protestant nation created by and for a modern "chosen people". Taking these biblical associations as a starting point, John Davis examines the ways in which nineteenth-century Americans looked to the actual landscape of the Holy Land as an extension of their national identity. Through close readings of panoramas, photographs, and conventional easel paintings, he shows how this "sacred topography" became a place to work out the competing ideo-logical debates surrounding American exceptionalism, prophetic millennialism, anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment, and post-Darwinian science.
Drawing on sermons, diaries, travel volumes, and novels, Davis explores the growth of a specific cultural market for landscape imagery of Ottoman Palestine and the manner in which easel painters responded to the popular demand for ve
目次
List of Illustrations Ch. 1 The American Identification with the Holy Land Ch. 2 The American Presence in the Holy Land Ch. 3 Panoramic Imagery in the Early Nineteenth Century Ch. 4 Landscape, Photography, and Spectacle in the Late Nineteenth Century Ch. 5 Miner Kellogg, Mount Sinai, and the New Jerusalem Church Ch. 6 Edward Troye's Holy Land Series: The Flow of Sacred Waters Ch. 7 James Fairman: The View from Outside Ch. 8 Frederic Church's Late Career: The Landscape of History Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography: Primary Sources Select Bibliography: Secondary Sources Index
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