The first English-language study of mountains as subject matter and inspiration for the visual arts Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Introduction: "Coming Round" Again - Peter Mark -- Mountains in Italian Renaissance Depictions of "The Sacrifice of...
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The first English-language study of mountains as subject matter and inspiration for the visual arts Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Introduction: "Coming Round" Again - Peter Mark -- Mountains in Italian Renaissance Depictions of "The Sacrifice of Isaac" - Penny Snyder -- Analyzing Frederic Church's The Heart of the Andes with Joseph Addison's Neoclassical and Prototypical Theory of Artistic Criticism - Matthew Kim -- Wordsworth's Alps - Elizabeth Deatrick -- John Ruskin, Turner, and the Romantic Pursuit of Truth - Avery Chase -- The Power of the Sublime in the Mountains - Page Nelson -- The Intersection of Alpine Passes and Landscape Painting - Gordon Pignato -- Terrible Beauty: Artistic Representations of the White Mountains in the Nineteenth Century - Peter Helman -- Thanatopsis: A Vision of Change in Nineteenth Century America - Penny Snyder -- The South American Mountains of Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Edwin Church - Elizabeth Deatrick -- From Postcards to Watercolors: Emil Nolde (1867-1956) and the Medium of the Mountains - William Wiebe -- Arnold Fanck and German Bergfilm - Jackson Sabes -- This Wild Country: Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums and the Mountains - Catherine Walsh -- King Ortler -- Climbing as Experience, a photo essay - Peter Mark -- Appendix: The Course Syllabus - ARHA 296: The Mountains and Art History -- Acknowledgements
