Research Catalog

Title

Picturesque and sublime : Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance / Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Sophie Lynford, Jennifer Raab, and Nicholas Robbins.

Author

Barringer, T. J.

Publication

• Catskill, New York : Thomas Cole National Historic Site ; New Haven, Connecticut : in association with Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Forrester, Gillian
• Lynford, Sophie
• Raab, Jennifer
• Robbins, Nicholas
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848
• Thomas Cole National Historic Site, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
• Yale University Press, publisher

Description

x, 179 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles; 28 cm

Summary

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is widely acknowledged as the founder of American landscape painting. Born in England, Cole emigrated in 1818 to the United States, where he transformed British and continental European traditions to create a distinctive American idiom. He embraced the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. Including striking paintings and a broad range of works on paper, from watercolors to etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, engravings, and lithographs, this book explores the trans-Atlantic context for Cole's oeuvre. These works chart a history of landscape aesthetics and demonstrate the essential role of prints as agents of artistic transmission. The authors offer new interpretations of work by Cole and the British artists who influenced him, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, revealing Cole's debt to artistic traditions as he formulated a profound new category in art. the American sublime.

Subjects

• Illustrated works
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Hudson River school of landscape painting > Exhibitions
• Landscapes in art > 19th century
• Male artists > United States > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Essays
• Landscape painting > United States > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 > Criticism and interpretation
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 > Themes, motives
• Painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Essays.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York from May 1 to November 4, 2018.
• Published with assistance from the Willow Springs Charitable Trust and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, on the occasion of the exhibition Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance, organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.

Contents

An Inheritance in Print: Thomas Cole and the Aesthetics of Landscape / Tim Barringer and Jennifer Raab -- Working Papers: Thomas Cole's Early Drawings and Notebooks / Nicholas Robbins -- Idyllic and Industrial Visions: Thomas Cole, William Guy Wall, and the Hudson River / Sophie Lynfold / Catalogue / Origins / Picturesque / Sublime / Trans-Atlantic Inheritance.

Call Number

JQF 18-595

ISBN

• 9780300233537
• 0300233531

OCLC

1005126662

Author

Barringer, T. J., author.

Title

Picturesque and sublime : Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance / Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Sophie Lynford, Jennifer Raab, and Nicholas Robbins.

Publisher

Catskill, New York : Thomas Cole National Historic Site ; New Haven, Connecticut : in association with Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.

Event

"Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance" : May 1-November 4, 2018, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York, United States.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) Catskill.

United States Connecticut New Haven.

Added Author

Forrester, Gillian, author.

Lynford, Sophie, author.

Raab, Jennifer, author.

Robbins, Nicholas, author.

Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, artist, painter. Paintings. Selections.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Yale University Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-595