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Pastoral inventions
rural life in nineteenth-century American art and culture
By Burns, Sarah
- ISBN
- 978-0-87722-580-5
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1989
Many contemporary Americans consider the pining for an idealized country life a relatively recent phenomenon, but Burns corrects this view. From 1830 to 1900, vignettes created by such artists as William Sidney Mount and Winslow Homer expressed a widespread yearning ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
