Forward 7 Acknowledgments 9 ANDREW WILTON: The Subline in the Old World and the New 10 TIM BARRINGER: The Course of Empires: Landscape and Identity in America and Britain, 1820-1880 38 ANDREW WILTON AND TIM BARRINGER: Catalogue 1. Wilderness 66 2. The Course of Empire 86 3. The Still Small Voice 114 4. "Awful Grandeur" 132 5. Painting from nature 156 6. A Transcendental Vision 186 7. Explorations 216 8. The Great West 228 GRAHAM C. BOETTCHER Biographies of the Artists 252 Notes 262 Bibliography 272 Lenders and Credits 278 Index 279
Andrew Wilton is former Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at the Tate Gallery. He is the author of The Swagger Portrait and the editor of Grand Tour and The Age of Rossetti. Tim Barringer is Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale University. He is coeditor of Colonialism and the Object and Reading the Pre-Raphaelites.
A gorgeously illustrated and learned history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting... Wilton and Barringer's commentary is stimulating and important, and the exceptional plates are bliss unadulterated. Booklist Splendid... Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer have written a book to treasure... A valuable contribution to the study of American art history. -- Phyllis Tuchman ArtNet Magazine The essays and catalog entries are well written and informative, providing a geographic and historical context for the artwork, [but] it is the stunning illustrations (including several two-page foldouts) that dazzle the eye and imagination. Library Journal What glorious images these are! National Geographic Adventure Highly and enthusiastically recommended. Choice The spectacular paintings that record [the] search for sublimity, handsomely printed here, retain their power to entice and overwhelm. New York Times Book Review At first glance, the color plates reproduced in American Sublime seem to be nothing more than pretty pictures. Only when the authors put them back into the political and cultural context in which they were created do the images take on new meanings, and only then do we begin to see the sometimes grandiose intentions of the artists who painted them and the art collectors who displayed them. -- Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times The catalog is far more than a souvenir of this astonishing [exhibition]. There are two well-contrasted essays by the exhibition's organizers Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer, and reproductions of each work are accompanied by very ample notes... [B]oth authors emphasize the religious and ethical themes portrayed, or more often symbolized, in many of the works. -- Geoffrey Newman The Art Book Wilton and Barringer no doubt convinced their British readers and exhibition patrons that these Americans do indeed fit into an aesthetic continuum, engaging in the discourse of the Sublime (as well as the Beautiful). They move American readers to a less parochial appreciation of our local heroes. -- Nancy J. D. Hazelton The Bloomsbury Review The term Hudson River School was once an insult... But as the paintings included in this lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog demonstrate, the landscape of the North American continent made for strong local color... The drama of American space gave artists a new subject matter, and they conveyed the news of craggy mountain ranges and impossibly deep canyons with striking detail. -- Carly Berwick ArtNews
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