Glorious Country (Hardcover)

Victoria Johnson

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2026

1982196297 / 9781982196295

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Hardcover. From the author of American Edenfinalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and morecomes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culturepublished on Churchs bicentennial. They came to see the world. New York, spring 1859. Outside Frederic Churchs Tenth Street studio, men and women amassed by the thousands hoping for a glimpse of his magnificent Heart of the Andes: a painting whose sublime, near supernatural rendering of the vast Andean landscape encountered on the artists recent travels introduced thousands of Americans to the fierce, majestic beauty of the far-flung wildernesses of the globe. Frederic Church brought the world to America, and America into the world. Cementing the United States as a cultural and artistic force a full century before Americas Abstract Impressionists rose to prominence, Churchs bold paintings composed odes in color, shadow, and light to natural places near and far: the lush jungles of South America and immense icebergs of Newfoundland where he journeyed as a young man; the Syrian deserts and ancient, ruined cities where he and his wife traveled following the devastating loss of their two young children; the verdant, luminous valley around the Hudson where Church first studied painting and where he returned and established his estate, Olana, whose landscape itself became a work of art. Deeply influenced by the work of Alexander von Humboldt, Church conjured a vision of the natural world as a place of communion with creation. Church charted, across the latter half of the 19th century, a career that both inhabited and gave shape to the artistic, cultural, and political crosscurrents of his day. Through a close examination of Church's letters, sketches, paintings, and diaries, and traveling in Church's footsteps to Egypt, the Andes, Petra, Jamaica, and Jerusalem, Johnson traces the path not only of one mans life, but of a country swept up in an era of vast and vertiginous change. Church worked and lived in New York in the citys formative years. He was a founder of its first great museum, the Met, and in paintings, not in words, he conveyed his passion for the exquisite natural beauty of the United States, but also for a Union free of slavery. He gave Americans visions of the majesty of their own new country and of the wonders of worlds only to be seen in paintings by this astonishing adventurer and artist. Church was a master artist and innovator, turning landscape painting into a portrait of a nation, and in the process, putting American art on the map of the world. Glorious Country is a book, Johnson writes, about how we see and what we save. From the author of American Edenfinalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and morecomes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culture, published on Churchs bicentennial. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Glorious Country (Hardcover)
Autor
Victoria Johnson
Verlag
Simon & Schuster, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1982196297
ISBN-13
9781982196295

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