American Sublime:
Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880
Andrew Wilton & Tim Barringer

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ADDITIONAL REVIEWS:

"Wilton and Barringer no doubt convinced their British readers and exhibition patrons that these Americans do indeed fit into an aesthetic continuum, engaging in the discourse of the Sublime (as well as the Beautiful). They move American readers to a less parochial appreciation of our local heroes."--Nancy J. D. Hazelton, The Bloomsbury Review

"The term Hudson River School was once an insult. . . . But as the paintings included in this lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog demonstrate, the landscape of the North American continent made for strong local color. . . . The drama of American space gave artists a new subject matter, and they conveyed the news of craggy mountain ranges and impossibly deep canyons with striking detail."--Carly Berwick, ArtNews

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