Nature's nation : American art and environment /

"Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment offers a compelling new vision of American art, examining for the first time how artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding while contributing to the development of modern ecological thought. Reframing more than three c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Kusserow, Karl (Author), Braddock, Alan C., 1961- (Author)
Other Authors:	Belarde-Lewis, Miranda (Contributor), Cruz, Teddy (Contributor), DeLue, Rachael Ziady (Contributor), Dion, Mark, 1961- (Contributor), Forman-Barzilai, Fonna, 1968- (Contributor), Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- (Contributor), Kelsey, Robin, 1961- (Contributor), McClintock, Anne, 1954- (Contributor), Morton, Timothy, 1968- (Contributor), Nixon, Rob, 1954- (Contributor), Richmond-Moll, Jeffrey (Academic) (Contributor), Shahi, Kimia (Academic) (Contributor), Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Art Museum, [2018]
Subjects:	Nature in art > Exhibitions. Art, American > Exhibitions. Art > United States > Exhibitions. Art, American. Art. Nature in art. United States. Exhibition catalogs.

Table of Contents:

The order of things / Alan C. Braddock
Ordering the land / Karl Kusserow
The trouble with empire / Karl Kusserow
Creative matter : tracing the environmental context of materials in American art / Laura Turner Igoe
"A knot of species" : Raphaelle Peale's 'Still life with steak' and the ecology of food / Jeffrey Richmond-Moll
Wearing the wealth of the land : Chilkat robes and their connection to place / Miranda Belarde-Lewis
An interview with Mark Dion / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow
"Man and Nature" : visualizing human impacts / Alan C. Braddock
Icon of extinction and resilience / Alan C. Braddock
On being still in Eden : Mesopotamia once more, with feeling / Timothy Morton
Ghostscapes from the Forever War / Anne McClintock
Horner Dodge Martin's landscapes in reverse / Rachael Z. DeLue
Entanglements of land and water : picturing contingency in Martin Johnson Heade's 'Newburyport marshes : approaching storm / Kimia Shahi
Turning around / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Vital forms : modernist biocentrism / Alan C. Braddock
The big picture : American art and planetary ecology / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow
Photography and the ecological imagination / Robin Kelsey
Three islands : an environmental justice archipelago / Rob Nixon
Citizenship culture and the transnational environmental commons / Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz.