Emerson's Nature and the Artists : Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea

A book looking at the complex relationship between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s widely read 1836 essay, “Nature,” and such landscape painters as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole and George Inness 

Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature urges Americans to value and immerse themselves in their country's landscape, to build American culture from America's nature. Nearly two centuries after the original publication of the essay Nature by Emerson, this captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings together a selection of artistic works in dialog with Emerson's text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take on Nature through new research into how the essay was informed by Emerson's experiences of art and, in turn, how it informed American art well into the twentieth century.

The result is a unique melding of essay, art, and ideas that will draw new readers to Emerson's writings, while also introducing a fresh perspective on a critical contribution to the American canon and showing what impact Emerson's text still has for the US to this day.

One of the LA Times' Art Books of the Year 2021.

Details

• Author: Tyler Green
• Hardcover: 344 pages | 75 colour illustrations
• Date published: October 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9783791378695
• Product Dimensions: 26.7 x  19.6 cm