The Mountains in Art History (eBook)

amp;lt;P>A cultural historian of West Africa, PETER MARK is a lifelong hiker, cross-country skier and mountain climber, and an avid reader and collector of mountaineering literature. He is a professor of art history at Wesleyan University.</P>

<P>Introduction: "Coming Round" Again<BR>Mountains in Italian renaissance Depictions of "The Sacrifice of Isaac"<BR>Analyzing Frederick Church's The Heart of the Andes with Joseph Addison's Neoclassical and Prototypical Theory of Artistic Criticism<BR>Wordsworth's Alps<BR>John Ruskin, Turner, and the Romantic Pursuit of Truth<BR>The Power of the Sublime in the Mountains<BR>The Intersection of Alpine Passes and Landscape Painting<BR>Terrible Beauty: Artistic Representations of the White Mountains in the Nineteenth Century<BR>Thanatopsis: A Vision of Change in Nineteenth Century America<BR>The South American Mountains of Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Edwin Church<BR>From Postcards to Watercolors: Emil Nolde (1867-1956) and the Medium of the Mountains<BR>Arnold Fanck and German Bergfilm<BR>This Wild Country: Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums and the Mountains<BR>King Ortler: Climbing as Experience, a photo essay<BR>Images (by essay) &#8226;APPENDIX: THE COURSE SYLLABUS ARHA 296: The Mountains and Art History<BR>Professor Peter Mark<BR>Course Narrative<BR>Syllabus<BR>Reading List<BR>Acknowledgements</P>