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Art, ecology, and the resilience of a Maine island : the Monhegan wildlands /

"Merging art, science, and history, this book explores the broad arc of ecological events on the island--the formation and abandonment of pastureland, forest recovery, and the critical importance of land conservation--through their representation in visual art. Indeed, for well over a century,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Logan, Barry A. (Author), Pye, Jennifer (Museum director) (Author), Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Shepp, Accra, 1962- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Brunswick, Maine : Monhegan, Maine : Rizzoli Electa ; in association with Bowdoin College Museum of Art ; and Monhegan Museum of Art & History, 2024.
Subjects:
Island ecology > In art > Exhibitions.
Nature conservation > Maine > Monhegan Island > Exhibitions.
Island ecology > Maine > Monhegan Island > Exhibitions.
Nature in art > Exhibitions.
Monhegan Island (Me.) > Ecology > Exhibitions.
Monhegan Island (Me.) > In art > Exhibitions.
Island ecology > In art.
Écologie des îles > Dans l'art.
Écologie des îles > Dans l'art > Expositions.
Island ecology.
Nature conservation.
Maine > Monhegan Island.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Exhibition catalogs.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David Foster
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Forest recovery and Monhegan's emergence as a tourist destination and artist colony, 1897 to 1928
  • Monhegan's forest health / William Livingston
  • Chapter 2. Retreat of the ice sheet to ongoing year-round settlement of Monhegan and Maine statehood, circa 20,000 years before the present to 1820
  • Wabanaki homelands : a tribal fisherman's tale / John Bear Mitchell (Penobscot)
  • Chapter 3. Year-round settlement to the arrival of rusticators and the removal of sheep, 1821 to 1896
  • Monhegan becomes a destination / Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • Chapter 4. Wilderness preservation, Ted Edison, and the Monhegan Associates, 1929 to 1954
  • Small island, big questions : the Monhegan Associates and the entangled histories of conservation / Matthew Klingle
  • Chapter 5. The era of introduced deer on Monhegan, 1954 to 1999
  • The rise and fall of deer ticks on Monhegan island / Robert P. Smith
  • Chapter 6. The recent past and the future of Monhegan, 2000 onward
  • Lessons from Monhegan / Tish Miller
  • Shaping lives : Monhegan's secret power / Doug Boynton
  • Afterword : photographing Monhegan / Accra Shepp
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the authors
  • Notes
  • For further reading
  • Credits.