Author Kusserow, Karl, author.

Title Nature's nation : American art and environment / Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Teddy Cruz, Rachael Z. DeLue, Mark Dion, Fonna Forman, Laura Turner Igoe, Robin Kelsey, Anne McClintock, Timothy Morton, Rob Nixon, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Kimia Shahi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

Imprint Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Art Museum, [2018]
New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press
©2018
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  N7650 .K87 2018  AVAILABLE
Description 447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm
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Media unmediated n
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-435) and index.
Contents Foreword -- Introduction / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow -- Colonization and Empire. The order of things / Alan C. Braddock ; Ordering the land / Karl Kusserow ; The trouble with empire / Karl Kusserow ; Creative matter : tracing the environmental context of materials in American art / Laura Turner Igoe ; "A knot of species" : Raphaelle Peale's 'Still Life with Steak' and the ecology of food / Jeffrey Richmond-Moll ; Wearing the wealth of the land : Chilkat robes and their connection to place / Miranda Belarde-Lewis ; An interview with Mark Dion / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow -- Industrialization and Conservation. "Man and Nature" : visualizing human impacts / Alan C. Braddock ; Icon of extinction and resilience / Alan C. Braddock ; On being still in Eden : Mesopotamia once more, with feeling / Timothy Morton ; Ghostscapes from the Forever War / Anne McClintock ; Homer Dodge Martin's landscape in reverse / Rachael Z. DeLue ; Entanglements of land and water : picturing contingency in Martin Johnson Heade's "Newburyport Marshes : Approaching Storm' / Kimia Shahi ; Turning around / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith -- Ecology and Environmentalism. Vital forms : modernist biocentrism / Alan C. Braddock ; The big picture : American art and planetary ecology / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow ; Photography and the ecological imagination / Robin Kelsey ; Three islands : an environmental justice archipelago / Rob Nixon ; Citizenship culture and the transnational environmental commons / Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz.
Awards "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, October 13, 2018-January 6, 2019; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, February 2-May 5, 2019; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, May 25-September 9, 2019"--Colophon.
Subject(s) Nature in art -- Exhibitions.
Art, American -- Exhibitions.
Art -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Alternate Author Braddock, Alan C., 1961- author.
Belarde-Lewis, Miranda, contributor.
Cruz, Teddy, contributor.
DeLue, Rachael Ziady, contributor.
Dion, Mark, 1961- contributor.
Forman, Fonna, contributor.
Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- contributor.
Kelsey, Robin, 1961- contributor.
McClintock, Anne, 1954- contributor.
Morton, Timothy, 1968- contributor.
Nixon, Rob, 1954- contributor.
Richmond-Moll, Jeffrey, contributor.
Shahi, Kimia, contributor.
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- contributor.
Princeton University. Art Museum, issuing body, host institution.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, host institution.
Peabody Essex Museum, host institution.
Princeton University. Art Museum, publisher.
Alternate Title American art and environment