[New-Poetry] Arne Neset, The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Cultures

[Anny Ballardini]

 BOOK - Just published:

Arne Neset, *Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes
in Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Culture*, New York: Peter Lang, 2009,
296 pages – ISBN-10: 1433102978
http://www.peterlang.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Arcadian-Waters-Wanton-Seas-Nineteenth-Century/dp/1433102978/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228129479&sr=1-1

Synopsis:
The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and
America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of
landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to
display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often
degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which
obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out.
Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and
literary art was supposed to portray the soul of the nation and the spirit
of place, a view commonly adopted by cultural and art historians on both
sides of the Atlantic. *Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas* argues that
nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted
iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of
nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which
fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central
elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically
portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions.
*Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas* adopts the interdisciplinary and
comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies.
The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study
of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a
textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western
world.
Arne Neset is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of
Stavanger in Norway.

Contents

INTRODUCTION: Typologies of Landscape
MEANINGS OF LANDSCAPE
1  Country Matters
2  *Paysages Moralisés*
3  Claude and Salvator in America
ROWING IN EDEN
4  River Arcadias
5  Sweet Water
6  Rowing in Eden
7  Hunters in Eden
SEA CHANGES
8  Painted Ships and Arcadian Beaches
9  The Angry Sea
EPILOGUE
10  Waterscapes in 20th Century Transatlantic Culture

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