Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak

"The most important contribution to the understanding of Nineteenth-Century American art that has been written in our generation" John I.H.Baur, Whitney Museum of American Art.

PART ONE
I. Introduction: The Nationalist Garden and the Holy Book
II. Grand Opera and the Still Small Voice
III. Sound and Silence: Changing Concepts of the Sublime
PART TWO
IV. The Geological Timetable: Rocks
V. The Meteorogical Vision: Clouds
VI. The Organic Foreground: Plants
PART THREE
VII. The Primal Vision: Expeditions
VIII. Man's Traces: Axe, Train, Figure
PART FOUR
IX. Arcady Revisited: Americans in Italy
X. America and Europe: Influence and Affinity