The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History

by Kelly, James C.; Rasmussen, William M.S.; Virginia Historical Society

• ISBN13: 9781574271157
• ISBN10: 1574271156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Howell Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Land without Landscape: Colonial Virginia	1	(8)
Methods of the Artists	9	(40)
Early European Ideals: The Sublime and the Picturesque	9	(2)
The Sublime in Virginia	11	(9)
The Picturesque in Virginia	20	(7)
An American Approach to the Landscape	27	(9)
International Styles of Modernism	36	(13)
Identity from the Land	49	(54)
Natural Landmarks	50	(35)
The Great Falls of the Potomac	50	(2)
Harpers Ferry	52	(6)
Caves	58	(2)
The Springs	60	(6)
Hawk's Nest and Crow's Nest	66	(2)
Cataracts and Other Natural Phenomena	68	(2)
Natural Bridge	70	(8)
The Peaks of Otter	78	(2)
The Great Dismal Swamp	80	(5)
Historic Landmarks	85	(18)
Mount Vernon	85	(4)
Monticello	89	(2)
Jamestown	91	(2)
Williamsburg	93	(4)
Yorktown	97	(6)
Living on the Land, 1750-2000	103	(92)
Countryseats and Market Towns	103	(8)
A Landscape for Sport	111	(6)
Landscapes of Progress	117	(14)
The Wilderness	131	(4)
The Crisis of the Civil War	135	(6)
Nostalgia	141	(7)
Renewal from the Land	148	(15)
Regionalism and the Post-World War II Era	163	(13)
The Endangered Environment: A New Worship of Nature	176	(19)
Epilogue	195	(1)
Notes	196	(11)
Index	207