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Thomas Cole's journey : Atlantic crossings / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Tim Barringer ; with Dorothy Mahon, Christopher Riopelle, and Shannon Vittoria.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Distributor: New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press Description: 287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781588396402
  • 1588396401
Other title:
  • Atlantic crossings
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Thomas Cole's Atlantic Crossings / Tim Barringer -- Manifesto for an American Sublime: Thomas Cole's The Oxbow / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Thomas Cole and the landscape oil sketch / Christopher Riopelle -- Thomas Cole's The Oxbow and the consummation of empire: a technical comparison / Dorothy Mahon -- Catalogue. Industrial England ; American wilderness ; London : imperial metropolis ; Italy : the grand tour ; American citizenship and consummation ; Cole's legacy -- Chronology / Shannon Vittoria.
Summary: Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole's Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832-36--notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire--as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole's passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole's influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.Summary: "Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole's Journey emphasizes the artist's travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. Presenting the artist's most renowned paintings--The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834-36)--as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness, this lavishly illustrated catalogue provides a new perspective on these cherished masterpieces. Four essays examine how Cole's first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation." -- Publisher's description
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A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels



Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole's Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832-36--notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire --as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole's passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole's influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.



Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press



Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(01/30/18-05/13/18)

National Gallery, London
(06/11/18-10/07/18)

This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 30 through May 13, 2018, and at the National Gallery, London, from June 11 through October 7, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole's Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832-36--notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire--as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole's passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole's influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.

Thomas Cole's Atlantic Crossings / Tim Barringer -- Manifesto for an American Sublime: Thomas Cole's The Oxbow / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Thomas Cole and the landscape oil sketch / Christopher Riopelle -- Thomas Cole's The Oxbow and the consummation of empire: a technical comparison / Dorothy Mahon -- Catalogue. Industrial England ; American wilderness ; London : imperial metropolis ; Italy : the grand tour ; American citizenship and consummation ; Cole's legacy -- Chronology / Shannon Vittoria.

"Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole's Journey emphasizes the artist's travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. Presenting the artist's most renowned paintings--The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834-36)--as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness, this lavishly illustrated catalogue provides a new perspective on these cherished masterpieces. Four essays examine how Cole's first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation." -- Publisher's description

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