A celebration of the enduring influence of German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She received her PhD in the history of art from Yale University. Harvey is the author of The Civil War and American Art, The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece, and The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880. Hans-Dieter Sues is a senior scientist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He received his PhD in biology from Harvard University. Sues is the author of The Rise of Reptiles, the coauthor of Triassic Life on Land, and the editor or coeditor of several volumes on vertebrate paleontology.
"Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art
Association"
"Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in
Publishing"
"Winner, Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Congress of
Scholars"
"[A] rich and beautifully produced catalogue."---Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post
"This handsome, beautifully illustrated, engagingly and
perceptively written volume was published in association with the
Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition by the same name. . . .
Chapter notes demonstrate Harvey's mastery of the primary materials
and the sources that chronicle these developments and the secondary
literature built on those sources . . . Essential."
*Choice*
"[An] immersive volume . . . [Alexander von Humboldt and the United
States includes] lavishly reproduced portraits of Humboldt
contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, period maps, animal
studies and sculptures related to Humboldt’s life and
times."---Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal
"[A] dense, engrossing project . . . [Alexander von Humboldt and
the United States includes]eight scholarly essays beautifully
illustrated with paintings, artifacts, and maps. . . . An archetype
of the 'public intellectual' bearing enormous, transformative
importance, thoroughly considered in word and image."
*Library Journal*
"[A] grandly executed, profusely illustrated volume."---Edward
Rothstein, Wall Street Journal
"[A] magnificent book. . . . a book that begs to be read and
reread."---Laura Dassow Walls, Early American Literature
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