Emerson's Nature

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Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson' s seminal 1836 essay is at once a meditation on the ways artists influence each other and a timely cri de coeur to cherish and preserve America' s landscape. Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emerson' s Nature urges Americans to value and immerse themselves in their country' s landscape, to build American culture from America' s nature. Nearly two centuries after the original publication of the essay Nature by Emerson, this captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings together a selection of artistic works in dialogue with Emerson' s text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take on Nature through new research into how the essay was informed by Emerson' s experiences of art and, in turn, how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. The result is a unique melding of essay, art, and ideas that will draw new readers to Emerson' s writings, while also introducing a fresh perspective on a critical contribution to the American canon and showing what impact Emerson' s text still has for the US to this day. AUTHOR: Tyler Green is an historian, art critic and the producer/host of the Modern Art Notes podcast. His most recent book is Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, which was awarded the 2019 California Book Awards gold medal for contribution to publishing. 75 colour illustrations