{"product_id":"land-into-landscape-kelly-presutti-9780300273946","title":"Land Into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of shifting landscapes--both real and represented--in nineteenth-century France and the role of images in both picturing and producing those shifts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What is the relationship between land and landscape? This engaging study examines the role landscape depictions played in the formation of modern France and reveals how art and visual culture contributed to the physical and symbolic shaping of the nation. Spanning more than a century, from the post-revolutionary period through to the early twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eLand into Landscape \u003c\/i\u003eexplores political and environmental shifts alongside changes in landscape representation across a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain, and maps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through this broad and diverse set of images--by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Théodore Rousseau, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, as well as lesser-known figures--Kelly Presutti contends that representational problems were also political problems, which often required drastic solutions on the part of the state. In the nineteenth century, France's forests were replanted, its wetlands were drained, its coasts were secured, and its mountains restored. Landscapes and their inhabitants, however, could resist being co-opted as emblems of a greater ideal. The book therefore addresses the tension between a place and its representation--a matter of heightened urgency in a moment when we are once again struggling to both see and manage our environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Presutti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300273940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300273946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kelly Presutti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897862119679,"sku":"9780300273946","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00be0687-386e-486e-b3c5-b96ec1bd5045.jpg?v=1721374931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/land-into-landscape-kelly-presutti-9780300273946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}