American Visions of Wilderness
Author : William Silas Talbot
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Landscape painting, American
ISBN :
Author : William Silas Talbot
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Landscape painting, American
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Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781860463723
Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Author : Bruce Babbitt
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597261513
In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in. We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and subdivisions. Too often, we assume that when land is developed it is forever lost to the natural world--or hope that a patchwork of local conservation strategies can somehow hold up against further large-scale development. In Cities in the Wilderness, Bruce Babbitt makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use. We may have a space program, he points out, but here at home we don't have an open-space policy that can balance the needs for human settlement and community with those for preservation of the natural world upon which life depends. Yet such a balance, the author demonstrates, is as remarkably achievable as it is necessary. This is no call for developing a new federal bureaucracy; Babbitt shows instead how much can be--and has been--done by making thoughtful and beneficial use of laws and institutions already in place. A hallmark of the book is the author's ability to match imaginative vision with practical understanding. Babbitt draws on his extensive experience to take us behind the scenes negotiating the Florida Everglades restoration project, the largest ever authorized by Congress. In California, we discover how the Endangered Species Act, still one of the most effective laws governing land use, has been employed to restore regional habitat. In the Midwest, we see how new World Trade Organization regulations might be used to help restore Iowa's farmlands and rivers. As a key architect of many environmental success stories, Babbitt reveals how broad restoration projects have thrived through federal- state partnership and how their principles can be extended to other parts of the country. Whether writing of land use as reflected in the Gettysburg battlefield, the movie Chinatown, or in presidential political strategy, Babbitt gives us fresh insight. In this inspiring and informative book, Babbitt sets his lens to panoramic--and offers a vision of land use as grand as the country's natural heritage.
Author : New-York Historical Society
Publisher : Rizzoli Electa
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN :
Examines art from the Hudson River School, nineteenth-century artists whose work captured the American landscape, including selections from Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and others; and featuring one hundred reproductions and fold-out pages.
Author : Michael L. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0195174143
Addresses the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of American responses to wilderness, from first contact to the present.
Author : Wilderness Society (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Landscape protection
ISBN :
Author : Steven Foster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1451672403
Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised edition—with two new chapters and added tales from vision questers—Steven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passage—that of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”—known as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.
Author : Kim Heacox
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :
"The Wilderness and the West" discusses the work of landscape painters such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, and the Luminists, who viewed the natural world as "the fingerprint of God's creation," and of those who recorded America's westward expansion - George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Remington - and the accompanying shift in the perception of the Indian, from noble savage to outright demon.
Author : Ansel Adams
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780762413904
2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams, whose landmark early photographs of wild America, originally taken for the Works Progress Administration, fill the pages of this splendid volume. Adams's breathtaking images are accompanied by excerpts from the writings of Sierra Club founder John Muir, the renowned conservationist who devoted his life to celebrating and preserving the American wildnerness.