Emerson's Nature and the Artists av Tyler Green

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<b>Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson’s seminal 1836 essay is at once a meditation on the ways artists influence each other and a timely <i>cri de coeur</i> to cherish and preserve America’s landscape.</b><br> <br><br>Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s <i>Nature</i> urges Americans to value and immerse themselves in their country’s landscape, to build American culture from America''s nature. Nearly two centuries after the original publication of the essay <i>Nature</i> by Emerson, this captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings together a selection of artistic works in dialog with Emerson’s text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take on <i>Nature</i> through new research into how the essay was informed by Emerson’s experiences of