{"product_id":"arcadian-waters-and-wanton-seas-arne-neset-9781433102974","title":"Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture","description":"The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out. \u003cbr\u003e Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and literary art was supposed to portray the  soul  of the nation and the spirit of place, a view commonly adopted by cultural and art historians on both sides of the Atlantic. \u003ci\u003eArcadian Waters and Wanton Seas\u003c\/i\u003e argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArcadian Waters and Wanton Seas\u003c\/i\u003e adopts the interdisciplinary and comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies. The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arne Neset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1433102978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433102974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/09\/2009 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 257","brand":"Arne Neset","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113509171455,"sku":"9781433102974","price":110.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_332b73db-b00f-4daa-92aa-5b6bfdcb4d75.jpg?v=1769615492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/arcadian-waters-and-wanton-seas-arne-neset-9781433102974","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}