导语

  

   During the years following the Civil War,many artists, including Winslow Homer,Frederic Edwin Church, and Thomas Moran, created images of America's regional scenic wonders and great landscape icons.These works, as well as decorative-arts objects,photographs, and other ephemera, forged a unique American identity, helped to make the conntry's landscape a source of national pride, and promoted landscape tourism.

内容提要

  

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
LANDSCAPE  ICONS,  TOURISM,
AND  LAND  DEVELOPMENT  IN  THE NORTHEAST
THE BEST POSSIBLE VIEW:
PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST
THE PASTORAL IDEAL:
WINSLOW HOMER'S BUCOLIC AMERICA
AMERICA INSIDE OUT: THE VIEW FROM THE PARLOR
SELECTED TIMELINE
NOTES
REFERENCES
PLATE LIST
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX