Inventing Acadia
Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert
1st edition
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Publication
1999-07-01 - Farnsworth Art Museum
Language
English
Word Count
43,500 words, Guess
Page Count
174 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8341789M
- ISBN-139780918749093
- ISBN-100918749093
- OCLC Control Number41972442
- OCLC Control Numberinventingacadiaa0000bela
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99071192
- LibraryThing2124373
- Goodreads2217031
Classifications
- LCCND1351.5 .B44
Description
"Today, Acadia National Park is one of the nation's most popular national parks, visited by over three million people annually. But in the mid-1800s, Mount Desert Island was a remote and inhospitable wilderness. Its discovery by visiting artists such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Sanford Gifford, and its promotion through their paintings and in prints, travel books, and photographs, began a transformation of its landscape into scenic representations that became symbols of national identity. A visual culture created by these and other artists of the period established new picturesque travel destinations, resulting in the emergence of a new tourist class stimulated by a belief in the transcendent value of the wilderness experience and an appreciation of landscape."--Amazon
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