Forging deeper impressions of our national landscape heritage.

American scenery 1630-1930:

A cultural approach to the values inherent in our landscapes.

Colonial | Puritans | Sublime | Picturesque | Urban influences | Borders or Frontier

• The absence of a renaissance sensibility in the US
• Retrogressive ideas in early colonial settlements
• Puritan attitudes about God, creation and paradise
• Naturalists redefine the character of life on earth
• Pioneers’ knowledge of soil, forests, springs and salt deposits
• Frontier violence and regeneration

Ambivalent: that is the existence of double edged sword; actually feeling two different ways about the same thing.

Colonial | Puritans | Sublime | Picturesque | Urban influences | Borders or Frontier

What were the contributions of romanticism to altering American attitudes about wilderness from the earlier prevailing protestant view of wild areas?

How would you characterize the Puritan attitudes about Indians and wild areas of the frontier?

How does Nash support his contention that concern for wilderness arose in the urban environs of North America?

What does sublime mean?

Colonial | Puritans | Sublime | Picturesque | Urban influences | Borders or Frontier

How did Gilpin’s idea of the picturesque influence people’s ideas about landscape?

What are the sources of the dominant antipathy Americans harbored for the wild frontier?

A new attitude emerged for land

The mountain west and a painting of the California gold rush.

 

Colonial | Puritans | Sublime | Picturesque | Urban influences | Borders or Frontier