Cultural Landscapes
Bibliography
Return
to Bibliography
Miller, Angela.
The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representations and American Cultural Politics.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Miller examines the
content of nineteenth century American Landscape painting for cultural meaning.
Instead of merely reflecting the ideological concepts of the time, the author
holds that the paintings themselves formed the basis for much of America's dialogue
on issues, such as nationalism, during the last century. Miller discerned
several patterns appearing in the works, many having to do with the reinterpretation
of nature, its transformation, and its eventual feminization. [R. Schoeberlein]