Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform

Name: Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
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ISBN: 9780226173269

ISBN-10: 0226173267

ISBN-13: 9780226173269

Edition: 2008

Authors: Finis Dunaway

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InNatural Visions, Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery-such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books-shaped modern perceptions of the natural world and led to the development of the contemporary conservation movement. By examining the relationship between the camera and environmental politics through detailed studies of key artists and activists, Dunaway captures the emotional and spiritual meaning that became associated with the American landscape. Throughout the book, he reveals how photographers and filmmakers adapted longstanding traditions in American culture-the Puritan jeremiad, the romantic sublime, and the frontier…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Finis Dunaway researches and writes about American cultural and environmental history. He is associate professor of history at Trent University, Canada.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


List of Abbreviations



Transcendental Vision



Gleason's Transparent Eyeball



The Nature of the New Deal



The Decline to Dust



The River of Time



A Flicker of Permanence



Picturing the American Earth



Nature on the Coffee Table



Thoreau with a Camera



American Elegy, American Renewal


Epilogue: The Ecological Sublime


Notes


Index