{"product_id":"looking-close-and-seeing-far-samuel-seymour-titian-ramsay-peale-and-the-art-of-the-long-expedition-18181823-penn-state-press-penn-state-press-9780271029825","title":"Looking Close and Seeing Far Samuel Seymour Titian Ramsay Peale and the Art of the Long Expedition 18181823 Penn State Press Penn State Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnites the core body of paintings and drawings, providing an account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Samuel Seymour's and Titian Ramsay Peale's complex responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is difficult to imagine a more learned account of this material. \u003ci\u003eLooking Close and Seeing Far\u003c\/i\u003e is a signal contribution to studies of American Romanticism—a lucid, exemplary account of the richness of an art of not-knowledge, of an art about failings and strivings to know a place (the American West) as much as that place itself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alexander Nemerov,Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“University of Oklahoma art historian Kenneth Haltman has collected the surviving images and skillfully weaves a tale of science and art, of eastern sensibilities and western wonders, in this exhaustively researched volume.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLooking Close and Seeing Far \u003c\/i\u003edeepens and complicates our understanding of the art of the western surveys and the relationship between art and science in the early national period. My major concern about this eloquent and beautifully produced book is that because it addresses lesser-known artists, working in less-valued media, in a little-studied period, it will not be as widely read as it deserves to be.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rebecca Bedell \u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haltman (Univ. of Oklahoma) offers a meticulously researched, carefully written, handsomely illustrated, and perceptively argued study that examines in particular the unique contributions of Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale in providing both a visual record and artistic impression of the topography, geology, flora, fauna, and Native peoples encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaltman carefully examines their paintings and drawings to understand the cultural, artistic, and intellectual context in which they were created and the artistic conventions and symbolism that they followed or abandoned. The detailed notes, comprehensive bibliography, and attractive, appropriate plates further add to the value of this work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—P. D. Thomas \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Figures in a Western Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Seymour: Science and Imagination\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManaging Distance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Poetics of Geologic Reverie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dream of Ethnological Connection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitian Ramsay Peale: Science and Selfhood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManaging Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Art of Predatory Looking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatural History as Family History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Looking Close and Seeing Far\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733827379543,"sku":"9780271029825","price":63.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271029825.jpg?v=1782120509","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/looking-close-and-seeing-far-samuel-seymour-titian-ramsay-peale-and-the-art-of-the-long-expedition-18181823-penn-state-press-penn-state-press-9780271029825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}