Jacob van Ruisdael’s Ecological Landscapes

Catherine Levesque is an Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary. Her previous book, Journey Through Landscape in Seventeenth-Century Holland: The Haarlem Print Series and Dutch Identity examines the role of print culture in providing a framework for developments in printed landscape series and subsequently paintings. She has also published on Pieter Bruegel, Gilles van Coninxloo, Joos de Momper, and Hercules Segers.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I Dunes: Man in Nature
Dune Landscapes and Pleasant Places
'Duinen en Wildernissen'
Dunes and Country Roads
The Dune Environment
II Grainfields: Making Landscape
Techn.: Labor and Landscape
The Wild and the Sown
Processes of Art: Processes of Nature
Point of View
III Ruins: Temporality and Transformation
Things Fall Apart: Broken Bridges
Monumental Ruins
Biological Time
Destruction and Reconstruction
IV Water: Matter in Motion
Mills and Millruns
Ocean
Waterfalls
V Woodlands and Marshes: Art and Nature
Woodlands
Realizing Vital Form
Sylva
Landscapes Tame and Wild
Conclusion
Index