Abandoned New England : landscape in the works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop / Priscilla Paton.
Material type: TextSeries: Revisiting New EnglandPublisher: Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xvii, 282 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1584653132
- 9781584653134
- 704.943674 22
- NX653.N48 P37 2003
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704.9436071 LAN Landforms in contemporary art. | 704.943614 ZX Z/X. #3, Contemporary landscapes. | 704.943673 VIS Visions of America : landscape as metaphor in the late twentieth century / | 704.943674 PAT Abandoned New England : landscape in the works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop / | 704.944 ARC The architectural unconscious : James Casebere + Glen Seator / | 704.944 BEY Beyond architecture : imaginative buildings and fictional cities / | 704.944 EVO EVolo skyscrapers / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267) and index.
1. Introduction: Lost Prospects -- 2. Rustic Sophistication: Lionizing Winslow Homer, Defending Robert Frost -- 3. Power and Impotence: The Black Figure and the Prey in Winslow Homer's Outdoors -- 4. The Hick on the Hillside, The Woman at the Window: Frost's Rustics -- 5. Gothic Loneliness: The Different Cases of Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth -- 6. The Landscape of Desire: Elizabeth Bishop and the Feminine Earth -- 7. The Vernacular Ruin and the Ghost of Self-Reliance -- 8. Epilogue.
"Abandoned New England focuses on five modern American visual artists and poets - Winslow Homer, Robert Frost, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Elizabeth Bishop - who portrayed the stark traditional beauty of New England landscape. According to Priscilla Paton, their paintings and poetry of abandoned terrain ask: What does a landscape represent? What meaning can it have when nature's power appears supplanted by urban or technological forces and when the observing eye is no longer emblematic of an enlightened viewer?" "Abandoned New England pursues these inquiries by discussing shifting and conflicting cultural attitudes toward the wild, the rural, and the domestic. In her readings of texts and images, Paton explores landscape as the synthesis of the human and nonhuman, as a place simultaneously reflecting and resisting desire, as the setting for social dilemmas, as the scene of encounters with otherness and a past both lost and inescapable, and as an integral part of creating and limiting identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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