Winner of the 2002 New York Book Show Award Winner of the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book, Association of American Publishers "In this wide ranging book, Rebecca Bedell looks beyond the usual labels ... to find an unexpected continuity in 19th century American landscape painting: its obsession with the once fashionable science of geology. In lucid prose free of ... Read moreacademic jargon, Bedell surveys the intersection of art, tourism and geology in the work of such painters as Thomas Cole, John Kensett and Thomas Moran."
New York Times Book Review "[A] gracefully written and handsomely crafted book."
Choice "In her scholarly, yet eminently readable and amply illustrated treatise ... Rebecca Bedell paints us a detailed picture of how the 19th century's 'fashionable science' molded ... Art... Seldom has the union of the arts and sciences come to such good effect."
American Scientist "In this wonderfully written, scholarly, and handsomely illustrated work, Bedell examines the fascinating and often surprising intersection of the two disciplines in the nineteenth century."
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